HTML Tag Table into Text Field - JasperReport

Question

I have a parameter input to Text Field with html markup language or styled. But when I put tag , It doesn't show at all.

Jaspersoft supported thid Tags:

<b/>, <u/>, <i/>, <font/>,<sup/>, <sub/>, <li/>, <br/>

Is there any way to show table from that html tag ? If it can not, is there any alternative solution ?

Answer 1

There is no way to show html table's inside a textField.

The html attribute can only be used for how characters looks, not to generate layout

The only option you have is to use the jasper report HtmlComponent <hc:html/>

Example

<componentElement>
    <reportElement x="0" y="100" width="230" height="110" backcolor="#ADD8E6" uuid="332dd551-e8cd-4cb0-a11f-7325f481017b"/>
    <hc:html xmlns:hc="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/htmlcomponent" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/htmlcomponent http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/htmlcomponent.xsd" scaleType="FillFrame" horizontalAlign="Left" verticalAlign="Top">
        <hc:htmlContentExpression><![CDATA["<table><tr><td>Hello</td></tr><tr><td>World</td></tr></table>]]></hc:htmlContentExpression>
    </hc:html>
</componentElement>

The major problem with this component is that it creates an image of your html and you will have problem scaling text.