XRLabel.AllowMarkupText Property

Gets or sets whether you can use HTML-style markup tags to format the control’s text.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraReports.UI

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraReports.v20.1.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Reporting.Core, DevExpress.WindowsDesktop.Reporting.Core

Declaration

C#

[DefaultValue(false)]
[SRCategory(ReportStringId.CatBehavior)]
public virtual bool AllowMarkupText { get; set; }

VB.NET

<SRCategory(ReportStringId.CatBehavior)>
<DefaultValue(False)>
Public Overridable Property AllowMarkupText As Boolean

Property Value

Type	Default	Description
Boolean	false	true, if the control allows markup text; otherwise, false.

Remarks

If the AllowMarkupText property is set to true, you can use markup tags to format the XRLabel.Text property.

XRLabel supports the following tags:

Tag	End Tag	Supported in XLS / XLSX Export	Description
<br>	-		Inserts a single line break. Enable the WordWrap property to use this tag.
<nbsp>	-		Inserts a space.
<color=value> Examples: <color=red> <color=0,255,0> <color=255,0,255,0> <color=#0000FF>	</color>		Specifies the text color.
<backcolor=value> Examples: <backcolor=red> <backcolor=0,255,0> <backcolor=255,0,255,0> <backcolor=#0000FF>	</backcolor>		Specifies the background color.
<size=value> Examples: <size=10> <size=+4> <size=-4>	</size>		Specifies the font size.
<b>	</b>		Defines bold text.
<i>	</i>		Defines italic text.
<r>	</r>		Defines regular text. This resets any bold, italic, underlined and strikethrough formats specified with tags or applied in the control’s appearance settings.
<s>	</s>		Defines strikethrough text.
<u>	</u>		Defines underlined text.
<sub> Example: Double subscript: 2<sub>2<sub>2</sub></sub>	</sub>		Defines that the text is smaller and displayed lower than the previous character.
<sup> Example: Double superscript: 2<sup>2<sup>2</sup></sup>	</sup>		Defines that the text is smaller and displayed higher than the previous character.
<font> Example: <font=’Times New Roman’ size=15 color=red>Times New Roman</font>	</font>		Specifies the font family. You can combine it with the color and size settings within a single tag.
<image=value> Examples: <image=UpArrow.png> <image=DownArrow.png;size=20,20>	-		Inserts an image from the report’s named image collection. Supports both raster images and SVG images. Use the report’s ImageResources property to provide images and reference them by their Id. The image tag’s size attribute sets the image display pixel size. If the specified width/height exceeds the label’s width/height, it is reduced to display the entire image. Specify the size attribute after the tag’s value followed by the “;” character.
<href=value> Example: <href=www.devexpress.com>Our web site</href>	</href>		Displays a hyperlink. The value string specifies the hyperlink source, and the string between the opening and closing tags is the text to display. Note that hyperlinks are not clickable in the documents exported to the E-Mail / HTML format, because the label’s markup text is exported as an image. Use the XRRichText control to create an E-Mail / HTML document with clickable hyperlinks.

Note

XRCharacterComb controls do not support HTML-style markup tags. The AllowMarkupText property is not in effect.

Example

The code sample below illustrates how to create a label, format its text and insert an image.

C#

using DevExpress.XtraPrinting.Drawing;
using DevExpress.XtraReports.UI;
using System.Drawing;
// ...
XtraReport report = new XtraReport();
Image image = Image.FromFile("testImage.png");
ImageItem imageItem = new ImageItem("img1", new ImageSource(image));
report.ImageResources.Add(imageItem);

XRLabel label = new XRLabel() {
    AllowMarkupText = true,
    WordWrap = true,
    Text = "Test<br>" + 
        "<size=14>Size = 14<br>" +
        "<b>Bold</b> <i>Italic</i> <u>Underline</u></size><br>" +
        "<size=11>Size = 11<br>" +
        "<color=255,0,0>Sample Text</color></size><br>" +
        "<href=www.devexpress.com>Hyperlink</href><br>" +
        "<image=img1>"
};

DetailBand detailBand = new DetailBand();
detailBand.Controls.Add(label);
report.Bands.Add(detailBand);

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraPrinting.Drawing
Imports DevExpress.XtraReports.UI
Imports System.Drawing
' ...
Private report As New XtraReport()
Private image As Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile("testImage.png")
Private imageItem As New ImageItem("img1", New ImageSource(image))
report.ImageResources.Add(imageItem)

Dim label As New XRLabel() With {
  .AllowMarkupText = True,
  .WordWrap = True,
  .Text = "Test<br>" &
    "<size=14>Size = 14<br>" &
    "<b>Bold</b> <i>Italic</i> <u>Underline</u></size><br>" &
    "<size=11>Size = 11<br>" &
    "<color=255,0,0>Sample Text</color></size><br>" &
    "<href=www.devexpress.com>Hyperlink</href><br>" &
    "<image=img1>"}

Dim detailBand As New DetailBand()
detailBand.Controls.Add(label)
report.Bands.Add(detailBand)