How to introduce a rowspan?

I am adding a table to a PDF file. I have 3 rows and 3 columns. I want the first column to appear only once as a single cell for all the rows. The result should be like where it says Deloitte in the column of company as shown in the image:

Posted on StackOverflow on Apr 5, 2014 by sindhu jampani

The MyFirstTable example from iText in Action (second edition) does exactly what you need. Ported to C#, it looks like this:

PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);
// the cell object
PdfPCell cell;
// we add a cell with colspan 3
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Cell with colspan 3"));
cell.Colspan = 3;
table.AddCell(cell);
// now we add a cell with rowspan 2
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Cell with rowspan 2"));
cell.Rowspan = 2;
table.AddCell(cell);
// we add the four remaining cells with addCell()
table.AddCell("row 1; cell 1");
table.AddCell("row 1; cell 2");
table.AddCell("row 2; cell 1");
table.AddCell("row 2; cell 2");

In your case you'd need cell.Rowspan = 6; for the cell with value Deloitte.

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