Generating Word Document with alignment

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Hi, I am using ColdFusion 2018. I am printing a word document (dynamic) using the below code. But there are multiple issues. One is that the image (please refer screenshot) is not aligned. I want the image to be placed on top on extreme left and top (topmargin=0 and leftmargin=0). Also after the image i am placing a text which is not displayed in the generated word document. Please help. If there is a better way to generate word document in coldfusion please post that too.

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BKBK · Accepted Answer

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@Sandhya231275905kpl , l shall say it again: all of these attempts (with an HTML table, cfheader with Word Content-Disposition, styles, etc.) will NOT produce the display you want. It is well-nigh impossible for the margins that you set in HTML to carry over to MS Word. Imagine you wish to frame a picture. Obviously, the dimensions and aspect-ratio of the frame and mat board will be the factors that determine how well your picture will fit.You may be able to adapt the picture's dimensions. But there is a limit to how the picture can affect the mat board and frame. In fact, the frame is fixed and determines the required size and aspect ratio of the picture, not vice versa. This analogy carries over to your code. The HTML output corresponds to the picture, with or without mat board. MS Word (independent software unrelated to CF) supplies the fixed frame. MS Word may supply headers, footers or margins that you cannot anticipate in the HTML. What your HTML code is doing is, simply, streaming HTML output to the browser. The Content-Disposition header tells the browser to offer the content as a downloadable MS Word file rather than display it inline. That's it. Just as the picture in our frame analogy has limited influence on the dimensions of the frame and mat board, so too HTML has limited influence on the footers, headers, margins, styling, etc. that MS Word may impose. What to do then? Your best bet is to avoid the table tag. Use divs instead.A simple example to demonstrate:

Open the downloaded file 1.doc in MS Word. Click on Page Layout, then on Margins. Click on Custom Margins, select 0 as Top margin and press OK. Examine the Print Preview and you will see that the image is at the top margin of the page.

BKBK · Answer

ColdFusion is irrelevant to your question, as your script contains no ColdFusion code. Ignoring cfheader, your script is basically HTML. So you should sort out the alignment in HTML first, preferably before any ColdFusion intervention.

For a start, the HTML is confusing. Reasons:

One <body> tag, but two </body> tags;
It is unclear whether the table is within or outside the HTML body.
The same <img> tag occurs twice for no apparent reason;
Use of the cfoutput tag is unnecessary.

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