Itext: Add hyper links to table

In this post, I am going to show you how to add hyper links to cells in a table.

Following snippet add hyper links to a table.

private static void addHyperLink(PdfPTable table, String title, String link) {

         Phrase phrase = new Phrase();

         Chunk chunk = new Chunk(title);

         chunk.setAnchor(link);

         phrase.add(chunk);

         table.addCell(phrase);

}

Following is the complete working application.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor;
import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
import com.itextpdf.text.FontFactory;
import com.itextpdf.text.Phrase;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class TestTable {
 private static final String fileName = "/Users/harikrishna_gurram/Documents/itext/tableEx.pdf";

 private static Font font = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.TIMES_ROMAN, 15, Font.BOLD, BaseColor.RED);

 private static void addHyperLink(PdfPTable table, String title, String link) {
  Phrase phrase = new Phrase();
  Chunk chunk = new Chunk(title);
  chunk.setAnchor(link);
  phrase.add(chunk);
  table.addCell(phrase);
 }

 public static void main(String args[]) throws DocumentException, MalformedURLException, IOException {

  /* Create parent directories to destination pdf file */
  File file = new File(fileName);
  file.getParentFile().mkdirs();

  Document document = new Document();
  PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(fileName));
  document.open();

  PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
  table.addCell(new Phrase("My Tutorials", font));

  addHyperLink(table, "Java Tutorial", "https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com");
  addHyperLink(table, "MongoDB Tutorial",
    "https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com/2016/05/mongodb-home.html");
  addHyperLink(table, "R Tutorial for beginners",
    "https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com/2015/06/r-tutorial-for-beginners.html");

  document.add(table);

  document.close();
 }
}

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