JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers

Stretching text fields to accommodate data

By default, <textField> elements have a fixed size. If the data they need to display does not fit in their defined size, it is simply not displayed in the report. This is rarely the behavior we would want. Luckily, JasperReports allows us to alter this default behavior. This is accomplished by setting the isStretchWithOverflow attribute of the <textField> element to true.

The following JRXML template demonstrates how to allow text fields to stretch so that they can accommodate large amounts of data:

<?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 ...