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Paragraph

Available Paragraph style options:

  • alignment. Supports all alignment modes since 1st Edition of ECMA-376 standard up till ISO/IEC 29500:2012. See \PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\Jc class constants for possible values.
  • basedOn. Parent style.
  • hanging. Hanging indentation in half inches.
  • indent. Indent (left indentation) in half inches.
  • indentation. An array of indentation key => value pairs in twip. Supports left, right, firstLine, firstLineChars and hanging indentation. See \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Indentation for possible identation types.
  • keepLines. Keep all lines on one page, true or false.
  • keepNext. Keep paragraph with next paragraph, true or false.
  • lineHeight. Text line height, e.g. 1.0, 1.5, etc.
  • next. Style for next paragraph.
  • pageBreakBefore. Start paragraph on next page, true or false.
  • spaceBefore. Space before paragraph in twip.
  • spaceAfter. Space after paragraph in twip.
  • spacing. Space between lines in twip. If spacingLineRule is auto, 240 (height of 1 line) will be added, so if you want a double line height, set this to 240.
  • spacingLineRule. Line Spacing Rule. auto, exact, atLeast See \PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\LineSpacingRule class constants for possible values.
  • suppressAutoHyphens. Hyphenation for paragraph, true or false.
  • tabs. Set of custom tab stops.
  • widowControl. Allow first/last line to display on a separate page, true or false.
  • contextualSpacing. Ignore Spacing Above and Below When Using Identical Styles, true or false.
  • bidi. Right to Left Paragraph Layout, true or false.
  • shading. Paragraph Shading.
  • textAlignment. Vertical Character Alignment on Line. See \PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\TextAlignment class constants for possible values.