Oracle Reports 10g : Inline HTML Formatting

Inline HTML formatting is a technique wherein, text displayed in a single text box can be of different formats. This formatting is taken care at run time by the settings done at design time.

Steps to create an example of inline html formatting in a text field.

• Open reports builder and connect to a schema.
• Navigate to layout builder option and create a text item.
• Copy the html code of the formatted text into the text item.
• Navigate to the text item and open property inspector.
• Set the "Contains HTML Tags" option to 'Yes'.
• Use the Paper Design to view the formatted text display.