GetCellTextAttributes Function

Returns the text content and formatting of the characters given as a continuous range in a given cell of a given table item from an Envision document currently opened in the Canvas Envision Creator app.

    GetCellTextAttributes(
        tableObj: [[[EvItem|canvas-envision-document-items.html#object-items]]],
        cell: [[[EvTableCellIndex|evtablecellindex-type-alias.html]]],
        span?: [[[EvCharSpan|evcharspan-interface.html]]]
    ): Promise<[[[EvTextAttributes|evtextattributes-interface.html]]]>

Parameters

tableObj: EvItem

An Object item object, a table item from the Envision document currently opened in the Canvas Envision Creator app that includes the given cell with the given range of
characters that should be retrieved with their text formatting.

If a given object item is not a table, the function throws an error.

cell: EvTableCellIndex

An EvTableCellIndex object, an array of the row and column indices of a given cell with the given range of characters that should be retrieved with their text formatting.

span?: EvCharSpan

An EvCharSpan object, a given continuous range of characters in the given cell that should be retrieved with their text formatting.

The default value is the entire text in the given cell.

Return value

Promise<EvTextAttributes>: A Promise that, if fulfilled, resolves to an EvTextAttributes object with the text content and formatting of the characters within the given range in the given cell from the given table item in the current document.

17 April 2025