Why doesn't border-collapse work in html2pdf?

Question

I want to create a pdf with an html table like : tableEx

So, I created this html :

<table style="width: 100%; border:2px solid; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0; margin: 0;">
    <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">
        <th style="border-left: 1px solid; width: 60%;">Ref produit</th>
        <th style="border-left: 1px solid; width: 10%;">Taille</th>
        <th style="border-left: 1px solid; width: 10%;">Quantit�</th>
        <th style="border-left: 1px solid; width: 10%;">Prix net HT</th>
        <th style="border-left: 1px solid; width: 10%;">Montant HT</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="border-left: 1px solid;">BAL100</td>
        <td style="border-left: 1px solid; text-align: center;">S</td>
        <td style="border-left: 1px solid; text-align: center;">20</td>
        <td style="border-left: 1px solid; text-align: center;">22.00</td>
        <td style="border-left: 1px solid; text-align: center;">440</td> 
    </tr>
    <tr>
    .
    .
    .
    </tr>
</table>

The pdf result is:

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The borders disappeared!

If I remove the property border-collapse: collapse; the borders appear but the result is not appropriate.

~~I see on the official forum (french post) that~~ the property border-collapse works only on the tag table. So I don't understand why my table is not generated properly.

Any idea?

Here is my php code to generate the pdf

$html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('P','A4','fr');
$html2pdf->WriteHTML($htmlContent);
$html2pdf->Output($path, 'F');

@AryehArmon On the bottom of my question there are 3 php lines, $htmlContent contain my html. I use the library html2pdf — R3tep

andrewgu andrewgu · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-23T18:55:02

border-collapse: collapse; is supposed to merge two of the same, adjacent borders together. When using it in html2pdf, you should style both the border-left and border-right attributes (as the same thing), which when collapsed will produce a single border. Also, to write this CSS defensively, and not assume the border-color attribute inheritance, you should technically specify it when defining border, such as border: 1px solid black;

Why doesn't border-collapse work in html2pdf?

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