PdfPTable.DefaultCell.Padding seems doesn't work

Question

I am trying to define the Padding of a serie of columns that will be pushed inside my PdfPTable...

this is my code:

PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(6);
table.WidthPercentage = 100;
table.SetWidths(new float[]{25, 25, 16, 11, 11, 11});
table.DefaultCell.Padding = 3;

There are something wrong, because when the table is generated, it does not have padding in anywhere.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

See this post from the creator of iText. The DefaultCell only gets used when calling AddCell with a string, phrase, image or another table. When you manually create a cell using New PdfPCell() then the defaults aren't used.

EDIT

Here's a sample factory method:

private static PdfPCell CreateCell() {
    var c = new PdfPCell();
    c.Padding = 5;
    return c;
}

You can also skip the factory method if you're only setting properties and use object initialization:

var c = new PdfPCell() { Padding = 5 };