Line

The Line control is used for decoration and the visual separation of a report's sections.

In the Property Grid, the Line control's properties are divided into the following groups:

Appearance

• Background Color

  Specifies the background cololr for the control.

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width

  Specify border settings for the control.

• Foreground Color

  Specifies the Line's color.

• Formatting Rules

  Displays the Formatting Rules Editor used to choose which rules should be applied to the control during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. for further information, refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance.

• Line Direction

  The line can be drawn vertically, horizontally and diagonally across a Line control rectangle from one corner to the other by selecting from the Vertical, Horizontal, Slant and Back Slant direction types.

• Line Style

  Users can select the solid (the default), dashed, dotted or mixed style for the Line.

• Line Width

  Specifies the Line's width, in report measurement units.

• Padding

  Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the control.

• Style Priority

  Used to define the priority of various style elements (such as background colour, border colour, ). for further information on style inheritance, refer to Styles Concepts.

• Styles

  This property is used to define odd and even styles for the control, as well as to assign an existing style to the control (or a newly created one). for further information on style inheritance, refer to Styles Concepts.

Behavior

• Anchor Vertically

  Specifies the vertical anchoring style of the control, so that after page rendering it stays attached to the top control, bottom control, or both.

• Keep Together

  Specifies whether the contents of the control can be horizontally split across pages. In other words, if the control occupies more space than remains on the page, this property specifies whether this control should be split between the current page and the next, or whether it will be printed entirely on the next page.

  If a control does not fit on the next page either, then the control will be split despite this property's setting.

• Scripts

  This property contains events, which can be handled with the scripts. for further information on scripting, refer to Handle Events via Scripts.

• Visible

  Specifies whether the control should be visible when the report is previewed.

Data

• Tag

  This property enables users to add additional information to the control; for example its Id, by which it can then be accessed by scripts.

Design

• (Name)

  Determines a control's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, the Property Grid and via scripts.

Layout

• Location

  Specifies the control's location, in report measurement units.

• Size

  Specifies the control's size, in report measurement units.