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Chapter 6 Formatting report content

Formatting is what you do to make a report visually appealing and effective. You format a report, for example, to highlight certain data, change the display of dates, numbers, or currency values, adjust the spacing between report elements, or display data based on a specified condition.

BIRT Report Designer provides many options for customizing the appearance of report elements that you place in your report. By using various formatting properties, you can change the font, size, color, alignment, and other properties of these report elements. You can add background colors, draw borders around elements, and so on.

If you are familiar with cascading style sheets (CSS), you can apply your knowledge of CSS properties because BIRT adopts the CSS specification as closely as possible. Many of the formatting properties you see in BIRT Report Designer are the same as CSS formatting properties.


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