why htmlcomponent on server looks different than in iReport?

Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:39am

Hello.

I want to generate a report with an html component.

If I compile it in iReport, the html component looks nice

(Description is a static text field; the html component is what you see in the right hand side):

 

BUT, if i compile from my server application, the html component appears all shrinked in the top left corner of the field:

 

 

The server application refers to the libraries:

jasperreports-4.7.1.jar

jasperreports-fonts-4.7.1.jar

htmlcomponent.jar

 

Can someone help on this?

Thank you!

Carlo

JasperReports® Library
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Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:00am

Check the output with Firebug. I think that it may be related on the CSS and Styles that are in the server.

Can you share the HTML that you are using insife the HTML component? 

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About Firebug. While developing, I am running the application in the eclipse environment. And the report is exported to a pdf. could I check the CSS or styles directly from Eclipse?
carlogenohm - 10 years 6 months ago
Ok That changes everything..... I assumed that you where exporting as HTML from your server app. If it's a PDF is should be exactly the same as the PDF that iReport Exported, are you using ireport 4.7.1?
marianol - 10 years 6 months ago
Hi, no, I was using iReport 4.5.1 Now I checked that: - if I use iReport 4.7.1, I obtain in the preview the "wrong version", as in the export to pdf java application - so I went back to iReport 4.5.1, where the preview is correct. - but if i use jasper libraries 4.5.1 (also htmlcomponent.jar compiled from the 4.5.1 package) again i get the wrong result. Summarizing: - 4.7,1 gives wrong result in both iReport and Java application - 4.5.1 gives good result in iReport, wrong result in Java application
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Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:15am

Thanks for the fast answer!

This is the html component:

<p>
    <strong>Rich text</strong></p>
<p>
    Description<br />
    <br />
    <strong>Bold text</strong><br />
    <br />
    <u>Underlined text</u><br />
    <br />
    Super<sup>script</sup></p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 500px;">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
                first column</td>
            <td>
                second col</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                &nbsp;</td>
            <td>
                second row</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                third row</td>
            <td>
                &nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<p>
    &nbsp;</p>
 

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Jasper Server Overrides a lot of the standard HTML tags (like p , table, etc) via CSS to use their own fonts, widths, etc.
Check with Firebug on your browser and you will see the current styles that get applied to your table.

Just a quick looks at the CSS on Jasperserver you can see that the main font type and size has been overridden in theme.css:

body, textarea, .body, .title > .path, input, select {
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:11px;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:1.182em;
}

To get the output you want you will need to use your own CSS styles in the HTML.

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Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:25am

Reposting my comment as an answer since the comment got scrambled:

 

Jasper Server Overrides a lot of the standard HTML  tags (like <p> , <table>, etc) via CSS to use their own fonts, widths, etc. 
Check with Firebug on your browser and you will see the current styles that get applied to your table. 
 
Just a quick looks at the CSS on Jasperserver you can see that the main font type and size has been overridden in theme.css:
 
body, textarea, .body, .title > .path, input, select {
  font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size:11px;
  font-weight:normal;
  line-height:1.182em;
}
 
To get the output you want you will need to use your own CSS styles in the HTML.
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It does not work in iReport neither: submitted a bug, issue 2656

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