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<p class="title">Eclipse BIRT Report Object Model (ROM)</p>
<p class="subtitle">TextData Element</p>
<h1>Element Overview</h1>
<div class="section-text">
Displays a multi-line block of text defined within the
report.</div>
<h3>Details</h3>
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<tr><td>Display Name:</td>
<td>Dynamic Text</td></tr>
<tr><td>Since:</td>
<td>1.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>XML Element:</td>
<td><code>text-data</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>Extends:</td>
<td><a href="ReportItem.html">ReportItem</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Extendable:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Abstract:</td>
<td>No</td></tr>
<tr><td>Name Space:</td>
<td>Report Items</td></tr>
<tr><td>Name Requirement:</td>
<td>Optional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Allows User Properties:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Has Style:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Default Style:</td>
<td><a href="../styles.html#text-data">text-data</a></td></tr>
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<h3>Property Summary</h3>
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<dt><a href="#Property-contentType">contentType</a></dt>
<dd>The formatting within the text: HTML / plain text</dd>
<dt><a href="#Property-valueExpr">valueExpr</a></dt>
<dd><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">An
expression that provides the text</span></dd>
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<h3>Method Summary</h3>
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<dt><a href="#Method-onCreate">onCreate</a></dt>
<dd>Script executed when the element is created in the Factory.</dd>
<dt><a href="#Method-onPageBreak">onPageBreak</a></dt>
<dd></dd>
<dt><a href="#Method-onPrepare">onPrepare</a></dt>
<dd>It is for a script startup phase. No data binding yet. The design of an element can be changed here.</dd>
<dt><a href="#Method-onRender">onRender</a></dt>
<dd>Script executed when the element is prepared for rendering in the Presentation engine.</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Inherited Properties</h3>
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<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-bookmark">bookmark</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-boundDataColumns">boundDataColumns</a>,
<a href="ReportElement.html#Property-comments">comments</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-cube">cube</a>,
<a href="DesignElement.html#Property-customXml">customXml</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-dataBindingRef">dataBindingRef</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-dataSet">dataSet</a>,
<a href="ReportElement.html#Property-displayName">displayName</a>,
<a href="ReportElement.html#Property-displayNameID">displayNameID</a>,
<a href="ReportElement.html#Property-eventHandlerClass">eventHandlerClass</a>,
<a href="ReportElement.html#Property-extends">extends</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-height">height</a>,
<a href="ReportElement.html#Property-name">name</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-paramBindings">paramBindings</a>,
<a href="DesignElement.html#Property-propertyMasks">propertyMasks</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-refTemplateParameter">refTemplateParameter</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-style">style</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-toc">toc</a>,
<a href="DesignElement.html#Property-userProperties">userProperties</a>,
<a href="ReportElement.html#Property-viewAction">viewAction</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-visibility">visibility</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-width">width</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-x">x</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-y">y</a>,
<a href="ReportItem.html#Property-zIndex">zIndex</a>
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<h3>Style Properties</h3>
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<a href="Style.html#Property-backgroundAttachment">backgroundAttachment</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-backgroundColor">backgroundColor</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-backgroundImage">backgroundImage</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-backgroundPositionX">backgroundPositionX</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-backgroundPositionY">backgroundPositionY</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-backgroundRepeat">backgroundRepeat</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderBottomColor">borderBottomColor</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderBottomStyle">borderBottomStyle</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderBottomWidth">borderBottomWidth</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderLeftColor">borderLeftColor</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderLeftStyle">borderLeftStyle</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderLeftWidth">borderLeftWidth</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderRightColor">borderRightColor</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderRightStyle">borderRightStyle</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderRightWidth">borderRightWidth</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderTopColor">borderTopColor</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderTopStyle">borderTopStyle</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-borderTopWidth">borderTopWidth</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-canShrink">canShrink</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-color">color</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-display">display</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-fontFamily">fontFamily</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-fontSize">fontSize</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-fontStyle">fontStyle</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-fontVariant">fontVariant</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-fontWeight">fontWeight</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-highlightRules">highlightRules</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-letterSpacing">letterSpacing</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-lineHeight">lineHeight</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-marginBottom">marginBottom</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-marginLeft">marginLeft</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-marginRight">marginRight</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-marginTop">marginTop</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-masterPage">masterPage</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-orphans">orphans</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-paddingBottom">paddingBottom</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-paddingLeft">paddingLeft</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-paddingRight">paddingRight</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-paddingTop">paddingTop</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-pageBreakAfter">pageBreakAfter</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-pageBreakBefore">pageBreakBefore</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-pageBreakInside">pageBreakInside</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-showIfBlank">showIfBlank</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-textAlign">textAlign</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-textIndent">textIndent</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-textLineThrough">textLineThrough</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-textOverline">textOverline</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-textTransform">textTransform</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-textUnderline">textUnderline</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-verticalAlign">verticalAlign</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-whiteSpace">whiteSpace</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-widows">widows</a>,
<a href="Style.html#Property-wordSpacing">wordSpacing</a>
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<h3>Description</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>The text item allows the developer to provide the text as
part of the report design. The multi-line data item displays blocks of text
retrieved from the database, from a file, or from an expression. The text can be
plain text, HTML. The format of the text can be fixed at design time, or can be
dynamically selected at run time to match the format of the incoming text.</p></div>
<h3>See Also</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>Text element</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p></div>
<h1>Property Detail</h1>
<h2><a name="Property-contentType">contentType Property</a></h2>
<p class="section-text">The formatting within the text: HTML / plain text</p>
<h3>Details</h3>
<table class="detail-table">
<tr><td>Type:</td>
<td><a href="../types.html#choice">choice</a> (textDataContentType)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Since:</td>
<td>1.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Required:</td>
<td>No</td></tr>
<tr><td>Display Name:</td>
<td>Content type</td></tr>
<tr><td>JavaScript Type:</td>
<td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Default Value:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
<tr><td>Inherited:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Runtime Settable:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Property Sheet Visibility:</td>
<td>Visible</td></tr>
<tr><td>Property Sheet Group:</td>
<td>Top</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Choices</h3>
<table class="section-table">
<thead><tr><td>Name</td><td>Display Name</td>
<td>Value</td><td>Description</td></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>auto</td>
<td>Auto</td>
<td>auto</td>
<td>BIRT will infer the
format as explained below.</td></tr>
<tr><td>plain</td>
<td>Plain</td>
<td>plain</td>
<td>Plain text with no
formatting.</td></tr>
<tr><td>html</td>
<td>HTML</td>
<td>html</td>
<td>Formatting using a
subset of HTML tags.</td></tr>
<tr><td>rtf</td>
<td>RTF</td>
<td>rtf</td>
<td></td></tr>
</tbody></table><br>
<h3>Description</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>The user can explicitly identify the format of the text
using the Content Type property. Or, the user can set the property to &quot;auto&quot;,
(or omit the property) and BIRT will infer the format from the text itself.</p>
<p>BIRT determines the text format by examining the first
few characters of the string. If the first characters are &quot;&lt;HTML&gt;&quot; (in either
upper case or lower case), then the string is assumed to be HTML. Otherwise, the
text is plain text. Any white space before these characters is ignored. That is,
&quot;&lt;html&gt;&quot; and &quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;html&gt;&quot; are both taken to indicate that the text is formatted
in HTML.</p></div>
<h3>See Also</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>&nbsp;</p></div>
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<h2><a name="Property-valueExpr">valueExpr Property</a></h2>
<p class="section-text"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">An
expression that provides the text</span></p>
<h3>Details</h3>
<table class="detail-table">
<tr><td>Type:</td>
<td><a href="../types.html#expression">expression</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Context:</td>
<td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Expression Type:</td>
<td>string</td></tr>
<tr><td>Since:</td>
<td>1.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Required:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Display Name:</td>
<td>Value expression</td></tr>
<tr><td>JavaScript Type:</td>
<td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Default Value:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
<tr><td>Inherited:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Runtime Settable:</td>
<td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Property Sheet Visibility:</td>
<td>Visible</td></tr>
<tr><td>Property Sheet Group:</td>
<td>Top</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Description</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>The value expression provides the text to display. The expression is most
often simply a reference to a query column. But, it can also reference a report
parameter, a formula, a special value, a file, or other data item.</p></div>
<h1>Method Detail</h1>
<h2><a name="Method-onCreate">onCreate Method</a></h2>
<p class="section-text">Script executed when the element is created in the Factory.</p>
<h3>Synopsis
</h3>
<p class="section-text"><code>None&nbsp;obj.onCreate(&nbsp;)</code></p>
<h3>Details
</h3>
<table class="detail-table">
<tr><td>Since:</td>
<td>1.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Context:</td>
<td>factory</td></tr>
<tr><td>Arguments:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
<tr><td>Return Type:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Description</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>Executed when the element is created in the Factory. Called after the item is created, but before
the item is saved to the report document file. See the scripting spec for additional information
about this script. Applications should perform visual customization in the on-render script instead.</p></div>
<hr>
<h2><a name="Method-onPageBreak">onPageBreak Method</a></h2>
<p class="section-text"></p>
<h3>Synopsis
</h3>
<p class="section-text"><code>None&nbsp;obj.onPageBreak(&nbsp;)</code></p>
<h3>Details
</h3>
<table class="detail-table">
<tr><td>Since:</td>
<td>2.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Context:</td>
<td>presentation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Arguments:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
<tr><td>Return Type:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
</table>
<hr>
<h2><a name="Method-onPrepare">onPrepare Method</a></h2>
<p class="section-text">It is for a script startup phase. No data binding yet. The design of an element can be changed here.</p>
<h3>Synopsis
</h3>
<p class="section-text"><code>None&nbsp;obj.onPrepare(&nbsp;)</code></p>
<h3>Details
</h3>
<table class="detail-table">
<tr><td>Since:</td>
<td>2.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Context:</td>
<td>startup</td></tr>
<tr><td>Arguments:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
<tr><td>Return Type:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Description</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>It is for a script startup phase. No data binding yet. The design of an element can be changed here.</p></div>
<hr>
<h2><a name="Method-onRender">onRender Method</a></h2>
<p class="section-text">Script executed when the element is prepared for rendering in the Presentation engine.</p>
<h3>Synopsis
</h3>
<p class="section-text"><code>None&nbsp;obj.onRender(&nbsp;)</code></p>
<h3>Details
</h3>
<table class="detail-table">
<tr><td>Since:</td>
<td>1.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Context:</td>
<td>presentation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Arguments:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
<tr><td>Return Type:</td>
<td>None</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Description</h3>
<div class="section-text">
<p>Executed when the element is prepared for rendering in the Presentation engine. Changes made to the
element are written to the target output format, but not saved to the report document file. This is the
preferred place for visual customizations.</p></div>
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