Horizontal rule (hr) in textfield

[gjritter]

I'm working on a project that uses Jasper Reports 2.0.4 to fill predefined .jrxml layouts with content provided by users. The content is applied to styled text textfields in the layouts via parameters.

 

The users have asked that we add support for horizontal rules (like the HTML <hr> tag) to their content. This would mean passing something in the styled text that is supplied to the textfield that would be rendered as a line that spans the entire width of the textfield.

 

Is there some mechanism that would allow me to create something that looks like horizontal line spanning the width of the textfield, without needing to programmatically add line elements to the reports?

 

Thanks in advance!