Task 8: Create a report title
All your report needs now is a title. To display a title, you can use either a label element, a text element, or a data element. The following list describes each type of element:
The data element is suitable for displaying dynamic values from a data set field or a computed field.
The text element is suitable for multiline text that contains different formatting or dynamic values.In this procedure, you use a text element and HTML tags to format the text. Note that you are not required to use HTML to create formatted text. If, however, you are well-versed in HTML or web design, you might prefer using HTML to create a block of formatted text.
When you select HTML, you can embed HTML tags or CSS properties in the text. You can type the tags or you can insert the commonly used HTML tags that the text editor provides.Report generated on <VALUE-OF>new Date( )</VALUE-OF>Figure 1-34 Text with HTML tagsFigure 1-35 Report preview showing formatted report titleAs you can see, using the text element with embedded HTML enables you to:
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