Label Properties dialog

The dialog appears when you right-click a label and select Properties from the shortcut menu. It helps you to specify the properties of the label and contains the following tabs:

• General tab
• Font tab
• Border tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

General tab

This tab shows some general information of the label. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the label, which will be shown on the shortcut menu of the label.

Width

Specifies the width of the label.

Text

Specifies the text of the label.

Height

Specifies the height of the label.

Position

Displays the position mode of the label. If the label is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.

• Absolute: The label's position will be decided by its X and Y property values.
• Static: The label will be positioned at the default location in its container. If selected, the X, Y and other position-related properties will be hidden or disabled.

Top Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the label and its top border.

Bottom Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the label and its bottom border.

Left Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the label and its left border.

Right Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the label and its right border.

Background

Specifies the background color of the label.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Foreground

Specifies the foreground color of the label.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB.

Font tab

This tab shows the font-related information of the label. See the tab.

Font

Specifies the font face of the label text.

Size

Specifies the font size of the label text.

Horizontal Alignment

Specifies the horizontal alignment mode of the text in the label.

Vertical Alignment

Specifies the vertical alignment mode of the text in the label.

Bold

Specifies whether to make the label text bold or not.

Underline

Specifies whether the label text will be underlined or not.

Strikethrough

Specifies whether or not to attach a strikeout line to the label text.

Italic

Specifies whether to make the label text italic or not.

Autofit

Specifies whether or not to automatically adjust the width of the label.

Word Wrap

Specifies whether or not to wrap the text to the label width.

Ignore HTML Tag

If this option is unchecked, JReport will parse HTML tag elements in the field value while the report is to be saved as an HTML file; or the field value will appear in the HTML file the same as that in Web Report Studio (HTML tag elements in the field value, if any, will not be parsed).

Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the label. You can modify all the border settings in this tab. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the border color.

Width

Specifies the border width.

Top Line

Specifies the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Specifies the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Specifies the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Specifies the style of the right border line.

Shadow

Specifies whether the borders will have a shadow effect or not. This property cannot be rendered in Web Report Studio or JDashboard.

Shadow Color

Specifies the color of the border shadow. This property cannot be rendered in Web Report Studio or JDashboard.