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Overview

The Rich Text control displays formatted text (static, dynamic or mixed) in a report.

 

 

To add this control to a report, drag the Rich Text item from the Toolbox onto the report's Design Surface.

 

 

Load Content from a File

You can load RTF or HTML content from an external file. Expand the Data category and click the Load file property's ellipsis button.

 

 

In the invoked Open dialog, select the file and click Open.

 

Rich Text supports the following file formats:

•RTF

•DOCX

•TXT

•HTML

 

Edit Content in Place

Double-click a Rich Text control and type text in the invoked in-place editor. A ribbon with text format options appears next to the editor.

 

 

Rich Text supports the following edit operations:

 

•Undo/Redo History
The undo/redo history contains the last 100 operations and is available until you exit the in-place edit mode.
 

•Clipboard Operations
You can use clipboard operations (Cut, Copy, and Paste) to manipulate text and images.
 

•Hyperlinks
You can create and modify hyperlinks.
 

•Drag and Drop
Use Drag and Drop to move images and text within the editor.

 

 

Bind to Data

Click the Rtf Expression or Html Expression option's ellipsis button to invoke the Expression Editor. Use this editor to bind the control to a data field or construct a complex binding expression with two or more data fields.

 

 

You can use HTML formatted text that contains markup tags to define text appearance. Click the Html Expression option's ellipsis button and enter this text in ' quotes ' in the invoked Expression Editor.

 

 

Drag and drop a numeric or text field from the Field List onto the Rich Text control to bind it to this field.

 

 

The Rich Text also enables you to merge data fields and static content in its text.

 

 

See the Bind Controls to Data and Use Embedded Fields topics for more information.

 

Markup Text

Supported Tags

The table below lists the supported HTML tags. External links are processed for inline pictures and style sheets (CSS files). The ID and Class attributes are interpreted for all tags, including the unlisted ones. These attributes are used to specify a style for content within a certain tag

 

 

Unsupported Tags

•<base> tag with href attribute;

•<div> tag with border, align and float CSS attribute;

•<li> tag with list-style-image CSS attribute;

•<margin> tag;

•<tab> tag;

•<table> tag with cols attribute;

•<td> tab with bordercolor and nowrap attributes;

•!important declaration;

•word-wrap and break-word css properties;

•css3 shapes;

•<ui> tag with type attribute.

 

Export to Excel

When a report is exported to XLS or XLSX, the following rich-text content is converted from Rich Text controls into Excel-native rich-text content: