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.

##############################################################################
#
# A simple formatting example that demonstrates how to add diagonal cell
# borders with XlsxWriter.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
# Copyright 2013-2023, 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()