How to remove table border

[karthikS]

Dear kings,

I was try to remove border from tables (my coding below).

This coding not working "Result: undefined"? how to remove all table borders. please suggest friends.

var mTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem();  
with (mTables) {  
  topBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
  bottomBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
  leftBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
  rightBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
  }
alert("Done")

Advance thanks all

[Ronald63]

Hi,

Try this ...

var mTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
var mLen= mTables.length;
while (mLen --) {  
    mTables[mLen].topBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
    mTables[mLen].bottomBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
    mTables[mLen].leftBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
    mTables[mLen].rightBorderStrokeWeight = 0;
  }
alert("Done")

[karthikS]

Hi Ronald63‌

Thanks your response,

I have run the your script. Sorry for saying this Ronald63, that coding not working "Result: undefined"? (attached screenshot for your reference). This same problem happening my said also. Please give me other solution and suggest Ronald63.

[Ronald63]

It's working for me, can you share your indesign document ?

[Ronald63]

Result: undefined is normal. Are you sure that the tables have a border ?

[Laubender]

Good question, Ronald.
Could be that all cells have the border and the table itself has not.

Uwe

[Ronald63]

Occam's razor principle 😉

[tpk1982 · Accepted solution]

try this,

if(app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.length>0)
{
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().bottomEdgeStrokeWeight = 0;
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().topEdgeStrokeWeight = 0;
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().leftEdgeStrokeWeight = 0;
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().rightEdgeStrokeWeight = 0;
}

[karthikS]

Dear tpk1982 and Ronald63,

very very very very Thanks you so match my friends both.

Both are coding working super, nice and good.

I am so happy friends,

One more thanks dears,

[karthikS]

Dear tpk1982 and Ronald63,

Dear friends, Don't mistake me, if i am asking one more question for you.

Find/change methods:   "paragraph style" applying the "xml tags" including with inside of table styles also.

@step 1: Find paragraph style. Example style "Table head"

@step 2: Apply(add) with xml tags. Example Tag "<p>"

So many thanks your golden help.

[bernardf54817818]

Here's what doesn't work:

Set TABLE border width to 0

Set TABLE border color to NONE

Set all CELL border widths to 0

Set all CELL border colors to NONE

Workaround:

Set TABLE border color to "Paper"

[Laubender]

Hi bernardf54817818 ,

can you show the code for the things that did not work for you?
Also provide a sample document by using your Dropbox account or a similar service and post the link.

Thanks,
Uwe

[bernardf54817818]

Dropbox - Table test.indd

No clue what a code is

[Laubender]

bernardf54817818  wrote

… No clue what a code is

Why are you saying this?!? You are posting in the InDesign Scripting Forum.

Nevertheless, the following code is removing all strokes from the table of your sample document. Just tested that.

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().properties =
{
    bottomEdgeStrokeWeight : 0 ,
    topEdgeStrokeWeight : 0 ,
    leftEdgeStrokeWeight : 0 ,
    rightEdgeStrokeWeight : 0
};

Before:

After running the ExtendScript code:

Regards,
Uwe

[bernardf54817818]

Uwe:

I posted here because there were several other posts about not being able to remove the TABLE borders. I see you had removed the CELL borders. If you look on the TABLE settings, you will see I had to select "Paper" as the TABLE border (the border that goes around the outside of the table) so that it blends with the paper. If I select NONE or set the the width to 0, it defaults to black.

Thanx.

[Laubender]

Ah. Ok.

For that we have two options:

Option1:

Using the Table Options setting the stroke itself to "None".

That would maintain the height and the width of the table.

Result:

Option 2:

Or we set all the stroke weight of the outer cells to "0" and the stroke color to "None".

This time with the Cell Options dialog, the whole table selected.

Note, that I clicked off the inner strokes of the widget for selecting strokes in the dialog.

Result:

( I moved the text frame a bit to the left to make it more clear what happened to the table. )

Regards,
Uwe

[bernardf54817818]

Thanx...I'll give it a go!