Textbox

- Value
- An expression that results in the displayed text.
- Font
- Expressions that define how the text will be displayed visually.
- Alignment
- The horizontal alignment of the text within the report item rectangle.
- Vertical
- The vertical alignment of the text within the report item rectangle.
- Direction
- Direction text should be shown: LTR (left to right) or RTL (right to left)
- Writing Mode
- lr-tb (left to right - top to bottom or tb-rl (top to bottom, right to left). tb-rl will result in text displaying vertically.
- Format
- The display format string. The drop down list contains
common format strings for numbers and dates.
Format is a .NET Framework
formatting string.
A format string of 'html' will be treated as HTML. The .Net control, HTML, and PDF render types all correctly render this option. The following tags are partially supported: <b>, </b>, <strong>, </strong>, <i>, </i>, <cite>,</cite>, <var>, </var>, <em>, </em>, <code>, </code>, <samp>, </samp>, <kbd>, </kdd>, <big>, </big>, <small>, </small>, <q>, </q>, <br>, <p>, <a>, </a>, <span style=""> where style supports the following CSS styles: background, background-color, color, font-family, font-size, font-style, font-weight, </span>, and HTML character entities (e.g. ©-© ).

- Name
- The name of the report item must be unique within all report items.
- Span Table Columns
- This property only shows when a report item is located within a TableCell. Spanning allows a report item to cover more than 1 column in the table.
The position of the report item only show when not part of a Table or Matrix.
Positions can have the following units
- in -> inches (1 inch = 2.54 cm)
- cm -> centimeters (.01 meters)
- mm -> millimeters (.001 meters)
- pt -> points (1 point = 1/72.27 inches)
- pc -> Picas (1 pica = 12 points)
- Left
- Location of the left side of the report item
- Top
- Location of the top side of the report item
- Width
- Width of the report item. Matrixes and Tables should not have widths specified as they are calculated.
- Height
- Height of the report item. Matrixes and Tables should not have height specified as they are calculated.
- Z Index
- Order of the rendering of the object. Z Index isn't relevent unless there are overlapping report items.
The Text Processing options only appear for the Textbox report item.
- Can Grow
- The height of the textbox will dynamically grow if the contained text requires it.
- Can Shrink
- Not currently supported by the RDL runtime engine.
- Hide Duplicates
- If the previous instance of this report item on the current page and current group is the same as this one hide this Textbox.
- XML element style
- Choices are Auto, attribute-normal, element-noremal.
- Toggle Image
- Does this item need a toggle image? true/false

- Style
- Valid values are None, Dotted, Dashed, Solid, Double, Groove, Ridge, Inset, WindowInset, Outset. However not all renderers support all border styles. Example: None, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "Solid", "None")
- Color
- Color of the border. Example: blue, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "red", "black")
- Width
- Width of the border. Example: 1pt
- Default
- Sets the default to use when a side isn't specified.
- Left, Right, Top, Bottom
- The cooresponding edge of the border you want to set.

- Background Color
- The background color of the report item. Examples: red, green, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "green", "black")
- Background Gradient
- Only enabled for charts. Possible values: None (Default), LeftRight, TopBottom, Center, DiagonalLeft, DiagonalRight, HorizontalCenter, VerticalCenter.
- Background End Color
- Only enable for charts. Specifies the endding color for the gradient.
- Padding
- Size expressions that control the spacing around the report item. Examples: 2pt, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "2pt", "4pt")
- XML DataElementName
- When rendering in XML this name will be used instead of the report item name.
- XML DataElementOutput
- Output indicates report item should render, NoOutput report item should not render.

The Action properties control action should be taken on a mouse click of the report item.
- None
- Take no action
- Hyperlink
- Link to the specified (or calculated) URL.
- BookmarkLink
- Link to the specified (or calculated) ID of a bookmark within the report.
- Drillthrough
- Link to the specified report passing the specified parameters as report parameters in the linked report.
Visibility controls whether the item shows in the report.
- Hidden
- Controls the initial visibility. When True the report item is hidden.
- Toggle Item
- The Textbox report item that toggles the visibility.
- Bookmark
- The ID of the report item in the report. Example: =Fields!prodname.Value
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