JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers

Setting a report's background

Reports can have elements that appear in the report background, behind all other report elements. We can add any report element to the background by using the JRXML <background> element. The following JRXML template demonstrates how to do this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <jasperReportxmlns="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="BackgroundDemoReport" > <style name="centeredText" hAlign="Center" vAlign="Middle" /> <style name="boldCentered" style="centeredText" isBold="true" /> <style name="backgroundStyle" ...