Tab Stops
Tab stops are useful, if you are unclear of what they are, here is a link explaining. It enables side by side text which is nicely laid out without the need for tables, or constantly pressing space bar.
Note: At the moment, the unit of measurement for a tab stop is counter intuitive for a human. It is using OpenXMLs own measuring system. For example, 2268 roughly translates to 3cm. Therefore in the future, I may consider changing it to percentages or even cm.
Simply call the relevant methods on the paragraph listed below. Then just add a tab() method call to a text object. Adding multiple tabStops will mean you would have to chain tab() until the desired tabStop is selected. Example is shown below.
paragraph.leftTabStop(2268);2268 is the distance from the left side.
paragraph.centerTabStop(2268);2268 is the distance from the left side.
paragraph.rightTabStop(2268);2268 is the distance from the left side.
paragraph.maxRightTabStop();This will create a tab stop on the very edge of the right hand side. Handy for right aligning and left aligning text on the same line.
var paragraph = new docx.Paragraph().maxRightTabStop();
var leftText = new docx.TextRun("Hey everyone").bold();
var rightText = new docx.TextRun("11th November 2015").tab();
paragraph.addRun(leftText);
paragraph.addRun(rightText);The example above will create a left aligned text, and a right aligned text on the same line. The laymans approach to this problem would be to either use text boxes or tables. YUK!
var paragraph = new docx.Paragraph();
paragraph.maxRightTabStop();
paragraph.leftTabStop(1000);
var text = new docx.TextRun("Second tab stop here I come!").tab().tab();
paragraph.addRun(text);The above shows the use of two tab stops, and how to select/use it.