BE THE CODER > Excel > Java Excel API Examples > How to add multiple Borders to Excel Cells

Java Excel API is an open source java library to read, write and modify Excel spread sheets. This requires the library jxl-2.6.12.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows how to set multiple Cell borders in Excel Spread sheet.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jexcelapi/write/CellBorderTest2.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jexcelapi.write;



import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;



import jxl.Workbook;

import jxl.format.Border;

import jxl.format.BorderLineStyle;

import jxl.format.Colour;

import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;

import jxl.write.Label;

import jxl.write.WritableCellFormat;

import jxl.write.WritableSheet;

import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;

import jxl.write.WriteException;



public class CellBorderTest2 {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws WriteException 

   * @throws BiffException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, WriteException {

    //Creates a writable workbook with the given file name

    WritableWorkbook workbook = Workbook.createWorkbook(new File("C:/JXL/Borders2.xls"));



    WritableSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("My Sheet", 0);

    

    WritableCellFormat cellFormat = new WritableCellFormat();

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.LEFT, BorderLineStyle.THICK);

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.BOTTOM, BorderLineStyle.THIN);

    Label label = new Label(1, 1, "Left Bottom", cellFormat);

    sheet.addCell(label);

    

    cellFormat = new WritableCellFormat();

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.RIGHT, BorderLineStyle.THICK);

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.TOP, BorderLineStyle.THIN);

    label = new Label(1, 4, "Right Top", cellFormat);

    sheet.addCell(label);

    

    cellFormat = new WritableCellFormat();

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.LEFT, BorderLineStyle.THICK, Colour.BLUE);

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.RIGHT, BorderLineStyle.THICK, Colour.GREEN);

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.TOP, BorderLineStyle.THIN, Colour.ORANGE);

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.BOTTOM, BorderLineStyle.THIN, Colour.GOLD);

    label = new Label(1, 7, "Left Right Top Bottom", cellFormat);

    sheet.addCell(label);

    

    //Writes out the data held in this workbook in Excel format

    workbook.write(); 



    //Close and free allocated memory 

    workbook.close(); 

  }



}