How to make font smaller in a text element with html markup

[andrey_nado]

I have a text element with HTML markup. I know that JasperReport supports very limited subset of HTML tags in such a elements, and "font" tag is supported.

Question: is it possible to make size of the font smaller that base size? For example, what markup should be used to display "Smaller text" in reduced font size? The "-1" size does not work as expected, the "1" size makes font larger.

<staticText> <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100"/> <textElement markup="html"/> <text><![CDATA[ Base Text <font size="-1">Smaller Text</font> ]]></text> </staticText>