format the text style in text field iReport

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I want to make some text in a text field bold. I visited http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/sample.reference/markup/index.html but could not get the desired result. I am using text field right now but when I tried using styled/html, the compilation failed. So can you help me with this jrxml code snippet:

<textField>
    <reportElement x="200" y="10" width="590" height="42"/>
    <textElement markup="styled"/>
    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["The static text without any format.\nThe field's data with bold format<style isBold='true'>:" + $F{TASKS_SUBTASK} + "</style>\n<style isBold='true' isItalic='true' isUnderline='true'>The static underlined text with bold and italic format</style>"]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>

In this example: Style a text field in Jasper, the text field expression is wrong for which compilation fails.

Your help will be appreciated.

What error have you got during compilation? Did you try the sample with `$F{TASKS_SUBTASK}` expression? The sample you talking about is working. — Alex K, Dec 28 '11 at 11:04

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 10:24

This work good:

"<style isBold='true' pdfFontName='Helvetica-Bold'>" + $F{data} + "</style>"

for input data from datasource, or

<style isBold="true" pdfFontName="Helvetica-Bold">Bolt text</style>

only for some static text.

For Text-field set properties Markup = styled.

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '13 at 21:55

in your view ireport designer.

click on the field and in the properties panel.: markup = styled selected

Right click on the fied. edit expression:

($F{fila1}.equals("c") ? "<style forecolor='red'>"+ $F{fila1}+"</style>" : $F{fila1})

or xml

<textFieldExpression><![CDATA[($F{fila1}.equals("c") ? "<style forecolor='red'>"+ $F{fila1}+"</style>" : $F{fila1})]]></textFieldExpression>

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '12 at 17:28

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The <b> </b> tags no longer work on text fields. Make sure that 'Styled text' is enabled for the text field and put this in the field expression.

<style isBold="true" pdfFontName="Helvetica-Bold">Text to be bold...</style>

The pdfFontName can be whatever you like.

If you are making text bold that is already in a string be sure to escape the above quotes with a backslash.

answered Dec 10 '12 at 17:28

Mark

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the text field option is: Markup --> "Styled" – torno Jan 09 '14 at 08:44

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 14 '15 at 18:15

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I solved this problem changing 'makup' text-field atribute to 'html'. Then in text-field expression use html tags like < b> < /b>. =D

answered Jan 14 '15 at 18:15

Sergio Peluzzi

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 30 '11 at 09:44

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I solved by putting for bold and underline in input string

"<b><u> your text</u></b>"

answered Dec 30 '11 at 09:44

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set properties Markup = styled for embedded html tags in string as shown above – Anand Dec 03 '14 at 18:03

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 13 '20 at 16:37

"<style isBold='true' pdfFontName='Helvetica-Bold'>" + $F{data} + "</style>"

what is done above simply

<style isBold="true" pdfFontName="Helvetica-Bold">Bolt text</style>

For Text-field set properties Markup = styled.

see the screenshot below hope this helps !!!

format the text style in text field iReport

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