Horizontal text alignment in a PdfPCell

Question

I am using this code to align horizontally.

cell = New PdfPCell();
p = New Phrase("value");
cell.AddElement(p);
cell.HorizontalAlignment = PdfPCell.ALIGN_CENTER; //Tried with Element.Align_Center Also. Tried Adding this line before adding element also. 
table.AddCell(cell);

It's not working.

I am creating a table with 5 columns in it and adding cells dynamically in runtime in a for loop with above code. I want all cells content to be centered.

Answer 1

I tried all the above solutions and none worked. Then I tried this and that led me to the correct solution

PdfPCell c2 = new PdfPCell(new iTextSharp.text.Phrase("Text")) { HorizontalAlignment = iTextSharp.text.Element.ALIGN_CENTER };
table.AddCell(c2);

I know it's not required from the OP but you can also have several words centered if separated with \n. Additionally you can also vertically center with Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE

With all that the code is:

PdfPCell c2 = new PdfPCell(new iTextSharp.text.Phrase("AAAAAAAAA\nBBBBBB")) { HorizontalAlignment = iTextSharp.text.Element.ALIGN_CENTER, VerticalAlignment = iTextSharp.text.Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE };
table.AddCell(c2);

and the result:

Hope it helps