HTML Tags

Xin 365 Report Designer has the ability to format text using standard HTML formatting tags. Sometimes it is necessary to make part of a text expression look Bold, Italic, or Underlined.

For example you may wish to achieve something like this:

     The fifth word is bold

HTML tags can help achieve this. The output shown above could be generated using the following expression:

                            
     The fifth word is <b>bold</b>
                            
                            

Although you can format the text in the rich textbox in Tab HTML, but it is with limited features. You can have a more flexible formatting by writing the HTML Tags manually in Tab Expression

Activating HTML Tags

You need to first activating the HTML Tags of a text object before the HTML Tags can take effect. Double click on a text object. Choose HTML tab and select the checkbox Allow HTML Tags.

Next choose Expression tab, and you can start inserting the desired HTML tags here.

HTML tags can be included only in the text part of expression, in other words their use is possible only in the Text property of the Text component. HTML tags can be included only in the text part of an expression.

For example, the following expressions are correct:

                            
     This is a simple <i>expression {1+2}</i>
     This is a simple <i>expression</i> {1+2}
     This is a simple expression <i>{1+2}</i>
                            
                            

These expressions however are incorrect. In the examples above the HTML tags are placed within the body of an expression, shown by the curly braces, so they are impossible to process. Do not place HTML tags inside the curly braces of any expression or the expression will fail:

                            
     The is a simple <i>expression {1</i>+2}
     The is a simple <i>expression {1+2</i>}
     The is a simple expression {<i>1+2}</i>
                            
                            

There are few limitations - most valid HTML style tags can be inserted. HTML tags can be nested to an unlimited depth. For example:

                            
     This is a <b>simple <i>expression {1+2}</i></b>
                            
                            

If a tag is not closed, then the tag works to the end of the text line. If HTML tags are used in a text expression then any line breaks in that expression are ignored. If you need to enforce a line break in your text, use the <br> tag.

Font Tags

Paragraph Tags

Tags of lists:

Tags of lists:

Style attributes:

Style attributes applied to the HTML tag to set the appearance of the text object. Example:

                            
     <p style="font-size: 20px;"> expression </p>
                            
                            

Special characters (list of the most frequently used):