Example: Diagonal borders in cells

Example of how to set diagonal borders in a cell.

_images/diagonal_border.png

See set_diag_border(), set_diag_type() and set_diag_border() for details.

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#
# A simple formatting example that demonstrates how to add diagonal cell
# borders with XlsxWriter.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
# Copyright 2013-2022, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
#
import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('diag_border.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

format1 = workbook.add_format({'diag_type': 1})
format2 = workbook.add_format({'diag_type': 2})
format3 = workbook.add_format({'diag_type': 3})

format4 = workbook.add_format({
    'diag_type': 3,
    'diag_border': 7,
    'diag_color': 'red',
})

worksheet.write('B3', 'Text', format1)
worksheet.write('B6', 'Text', format2)
worksheet.write('B9', 'Text', format3)
worksheet.write('B12', 'Text', format4)

workbook.close()