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copied!<p>I like to share my learning of using styles in Jasper reports, which I think quite useful for report designers like me, from a book named JasperReport Development cookbook by Bilal Siddiqui. I like this book and found demonstrating styles in a variety of manner like:</p> <ul> <li><p><strong>Creating a reusable style</strong><br/> Simply select “Style” while creating a new report and define style for text, line and rectangles. The style file will be stored as .jrtx file.</p></li> <li><p>Import reusable style it in your report<br/> There are three chunk of information when importing styles in your report. Step1. Name and location of style template<br/> </p></li> </ul> <blockquote> <pre><code><template><![CDATA["C:\\ BigBoldRedTemplate.jrtx"]]></template> </code></pre> </blockquote> <p>Step2. Each time you apply style to your report elements using the style template, a <code><reportElement></code> tag is created as shown below:</p> <pre><code>//style applied to a rectangle <rectangle radius="10"> <reportElement style="BigBoldRed" mode="Transparent" x="0" y="0" width="555" height="44"/> </rectangle> //style applied to a the text field <staticText> <reportElement style="BigBoldRed" x="0" y="0" width="555" height="66"/> <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle"/> <text><![CDATA[Monthly Customer Invoices]]></text> </staticText> </code></pre> <ul> <li><strong>Mixing the internal and reusable styles in report</strong><br/></li> <li><strong>Using the power of HTML to style your report</strong> <br/> For example, your text field has following expression which includes HTML tags (i.e. <code><li></code>) and you want the HTML tags to work in your report design:</li> </ul> <blockquote> <pre><code>"<li>"+"Invoice # "+$F{InvoiceID}+", "+ </code></pre> <p>$F{CustomerName}+" purchased "+$F{ProductName}+" in "+$F{InvoicePeriod}+" (Invoice value: \$ "+$F{InvoiceValue}+")"+"</li></p> </blockquote> <p>Solution is simple, just set “Markup” property of the text field to “Styled” and that it.</p> <p>I have taken permission from the author to copy code chunk from his JasperReports cookbook in this post.</p>

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