Hiding table border in iTextSharp

Question

How can i hide the table border using iTextSharp. I am using following code to generate a file:

var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 25, 25);

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Answer 1

Although I upvoted the answer by Martijn, I want to add a clarification.

Only cells have borders in iText; tables don't have a border. Martijn's suggestion to set the border of the default cell to NO_BORDER is correct:

table.DefaultCell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER;

But it won't work for the code snippet provided in the question. The properties of the default cell are only used if iText needs to create a PdfPCell instance implicitly (for instance: if you use the addCell() method passing a Phrase as parameter).

In the code snippet provided by @Brown_Dynamite, the PdfPCell objects are created explicitly. This means that you need to set the border of each of these cells to NO_BORDER.

Usually, I write a factory class to create cells. That way, I can significantly reduce the amount of code in the class that creates the table.