#1363·PHPWord

Table/cell styles applied to odt file

Author: marcin-solvenetCreated May 2, 2018Updated Aug 25, 2026

LabelsBug ReportOpen Document (ODT)

This is:

a bug report
a feature request
not a usage question (ask them on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/phpword)

Expected Behavior

When export to ODT file expected behaviour is apply styles to table/cell elements.

Current Behavior

Cell/Table styles are not applied

Failure Information

I used newest version PHPWord 0.14.0. I tried to open docx file with MS Word and styles were applied correctly. Then by using LibreOffice either opening odt or docx file result in styles not applied.

How to Reproduce

Please provide a code sample that reproduces the issue.

php

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

        $phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
        
         // Styles
         $phpWord->addTableStyle('mainTableStyle',  ['width' => 100, 'unit' => 'pct', 'borderSize' => 1, 'borderColor' => '#000000', 'cellMargin' => 100], null);
         $phpWord->addFontStyle('fontHeading1', ['size' => 16, 'bold' => true]);    
        
         $section = $phpWord->addSection();
         $section->addText('Text using font style' , 'fontHeading1');
         $section->addText('Default text style');
          
         $table = $section->addTable('mainTableStyle');

         $items = ['ITEM 1', 'ITEM 2', 'ITEM 3'];

         foreach ($items as $item) {
            $cellStyle = ['gridSpan' => 2, 'valign' => 'center', 'bgColor' => '#FFC000'];
            $row = $table->addRow();
            $cell = $row->addCell(\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Converter::cmToTwip(20), $cellStyle);
            $cell->addText($item);
         }

         $docxWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'Word2007');
         $docxWriter->save('out_' . date('Ymd_His') . '.docx');

         $odtWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'ODText');
         $odtWriter->save('out_' . date('Ymd_His') . '.odt');

Context

PHP version: PHP 5.6.30
PHPWord version: 0.14

out_docs.zip

Source: PHPOffice/PHPWord

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