public SimpleTable() 
{
	
		super(0f, 0f, 0f, 0f);
		setBorder(BOX);
		setBorderWidth(2f);
}

A RectangleCell is always constructed without any dimensions. Dimensions are defined after creation.

 public boolean add(Object o) 
{
		try {
			addElement((SimpleCell)o);
			return true;
		}
		catch(ClassCastException e) {
			return false;
		}
		catch(BadElementException e) {
			throw new ExceptionConverter(e);
		}
}

 public  void addElement(SimpleCell element) throws BadElementException 
{
		if(!element.isCellgroup()) {
			throw new BadElementException("You can't add cells to a table directly, add them to a row first.");
		}
		content.add(element);
}

Adds content to this object.

 public PdfPTable createPdfPTable() throws DocumentException 
{
		if (content.isEmpty()) throw new BadElementException("Trying to create a table without rows.");
		SimpleCell row = (SimpleCell)content.get(0);
		SimpleCell cell;
		int columns = 0;
		for (Iterator i = row.getContent().iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
			cell = (SimpleCell)i.next();
			columns += cell.getColspan();
		}
		float[] widths = new float[columns];
		float[] widthpercentages = new float[columns];
		PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(columns);
		table.setTableEvent(this);
		table.setHorizontalAlignment(alignment);
		int pos;
		for (Iterator rows = content.iterator(); rows.hasNext(); ) {
			row = (SimpleCell)rows.next();
			pos = 0;
			for (Iterator cells = row.getContent().iterator(); cells.hasNext(); ) {
				cell = (SimpleCell)cells.next();
				if (Float.isNaN(cell.getSpacing_left()))	{
					cell.setSpacing_left(cellspacing / 2f);
				}
				if (Float.isNaN(cell.getSpacing_right()))	{
					cell.setSpacing_right(cellspacing / 2f);
				}
				if (Float.isNaN(cell.getSpacing_top()))	{
					cell.setSpacing_top(cellspacing / 2f);
				}
				if (Float.isNaN(cell.getSpacing_bottom()))	{
					cell.setSpacing_bottom(cellspacing / 2f);
				}
				cell.setPadding(cellpadding);
				table.addCell(cell.createPdfPCell(row));
				if (cell.getColspan() == 1) {
					if (cell.getWidth()  > 0) widths[pos] = cell.getWidth();
					if (cell.getWidthpercentage()  > 0) widthpercentages[pos] = cell.getWidthpercentage();
				}
				pos += cell.getColspan();
			}
		}
		float sumWidths = 0f;
		for(int i = 0; i <  columns; i++) {
			if (widths[i] == 0) {
				sumWidths = 0;
				break;
			}
			sumWidths += widths[i];
		}
		if (sumWidths  > 0) {
			table.setTotalWidth(sumWidths);
			table.setWidths(widths);
		}
		else {
			for(int i = 0; i <  columns; i++) {
				if (widthpercentages[i] == 0) {
					sumWidths = 0;
					break;
				}
				sumWidths += widthpercentages[i];
			}
			if (sumWidths  > 0) {
				table.setWidths(widthpercentages);
			}
		}
		if (width  > 0) {
			table.setTotalWidth(width);
		}
		if (widthpercentage  > 0) {
			table.setWidthPercentage(widthpercentage);
		}
		return table;
}

Creates a PdfPTable object based on this TableAttributes object.

 public Table createTable() throws BadElementException 
{
		if (content.isEmpty()) throw new BadElementException("Trying to create a table without rows.");
		SimpleCell row = (SimpleCell)content.get(0);
		SimpleCell cell;
		int columns = 0;
		for (Iterator i = row.getContent().iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
			cell = (SimpleCell)i.next();
			columns += cell.getColspan();
		}
		float[] widths = new float[columns];
		float[] widthpercentages = new float[columns];
		Table table = new Table(columns);
		table.setAlignment(alignment);
		table.setSpacing(cellspacing);
		table.setPadding(cellpadding);
		table.cloneNonPositionParameters(this);
		int pos;
		for (Iterator rows = content.iterator(); rows.hasNext(); ) {
			row = (SimpleCell)rows.next();
			pos = 0;
			for (Iterator cells = row.getContent().iterator(); cells.hasNext(); ) {
				cell = (SimpleCell)cells.next();
				table.addCell(cell.createCell(row));
				if (cell.getColspan() == 1) {
					if (cell.getWidth()  > 0) widths[pos] = cell.getWidth();
					if (cell.getWidthpercentage()  > 0) widthpercentages[pos] = cell.getWidthpercentage();
				}
				pos += cell.getColspan();
			}
		}
		float sumWidths = 0f;
		for(int i = 0; i <  columns; i++) {
			if (widths[i] == 0) {
				sumWidths = 0;
				break;
			}
			sumWidths += widths[i];
		}
		if (sumWidths  > 0) {
			table.setWidth(sumWidths);
			table.setLocked(true);
			table.setWidths(widths);
		}
		else {
			for(int i = 0; i <  columns; i++) {
				if (widthpercentages[i] == 0) {
					sumWidths = 0;
					break;
				}
				sumWidths += widthpercentages[i];
			}
			if (sumWidths  > 0) {
				table.setWidths(widthpercentages);
			}
		}
		if (width  > 0) {
			table.setWidth(width);
			table.setLocked(true);
		}
		else if (widthpercentage  > 0) {
			table.setWidth(widthpercentage);
		}
		return table;
}

Creates a Table object based on this TableAttributes object.

 public int getAlignment() 
{
		return alignment;
}

 public float getCellpadding() 
{
		return cellpadding;
}

 public float getCellspacing() 
{
		return cellspacing;
}

 public static SimpleTable getDimensionlessInstance(Rectangle rectangle,
    float spacing) 
{
		SimpleTable event = new SimpleTable();
		event.cloneNonPositionParameters(rectangle);
		event.setCellspacing(spacing);
		return event;
}

 public float getWidth() 
{
		return width;
}

 public float getWidthpercentage() 
{
		return widthpercentage;
}

 public boolean isNestable() 
{
		return true;
}

 public  void setAlignment(int alignment) 
{
		this.alignment = alignment;
}

 public  void setCellpadding(float cellpadding) 
{
		this.cellpadding = cellpadding;
}

 public  void setCellspacing(float cellspacing) 
{
		this.cellspacing = cellspacing;
}

 public  void setWidth(float width) 
{
		this.width = width;
}

 public  void setWidthpercentage(float widthpercentage) 
{
		this.widthpercentage = widthpercentage;
}

 public  void tableLayout(PdfPTable table,
    float[][] widths,
    float[] heights,
    int headerRows,
    int rowStart,
    PdfContentByte[] canvases) 
{
		float[] width = widths[0];
		Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(width[0], heights[heights.length - 1], width[width.length - 1], heights[0]);
		rect.cloneNonPositionParameters(this);
        int bd = rect.getBorder();
        rect.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
		canvases[PdfPTable.BACKGROUNDCANVAS].rectangle(rect);
        rect.setBorder(bd);
		rect.setBackgroundColor(null);
		canvases[PdfPTable.LINECANVAS].rectangle(rect);
}

 public int type() 
{
		return Element.TABLE;
}