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Thanks Lucian! I realized this yesterday. Since the docs said that in this case y is ignored, I didn't think its value mattered at all. So, in order to have it float, you need to place it right below the previous element according to its declared position and height.

I'm trying to get the positionType="Float" feature to work in a simple scenario with subreports. For some reason, both subreports are displayed taking both x and y. Am I doing something wrong? Here's my jrxml ... assume the subreport is some silly arbitrary static stuff. Thanks! Code:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="report name" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="535" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20"> <parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false"> <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["C:\reportFolder\"]]></defaultValueExpression> </parameter> <background> <band/> </background> <detail> <band height="200"> <subreport> <reportElement positionType="FixRelativeToTop" x="19" y="0" width="200" height="50"/> <dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JREmptyDataSource()]]></dataSourceExpression> <subreportExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "report1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression> </subreport> <subreport> <reportElement positionType="Float" mode="Transparent" x="19" y="20" width="200" height="50" backcolor="#FFFF66"/> <dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JREmptyDataSource()]]></dataSourceExpression> <subreportExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "report1.jasper"]]></subreportExpression> </subreport> </band> </detail></jasperReport>