I want to use HTML in Crystal Reports. I already found out Crystal reports renders some HTML tags nicely (at least the few tags they support).
Html like this works:
<b>Bold and <i>italic</i> and <font color="#ff0000">colored</font> text.</b>
Now I want to render a background color for my text (which is a pretty common kind of rich text formatting), and I remember I have Crystal already seen renderering it, but I cannot remember the HTML to tell crystal. I believe it could be done with the style attribute, but using style="background-color:#ff0000" is not recognized.
How can I tell Crystal to give me some background color? Or doesn’t this work anymore since CR 2008?
EDIT:
I want to use a HTML string displayed in a normal text control with the “text interpretation” attribute set to HTML. And my HTML simply does not work! I just need one example HTML line that make Crystal Report (2008 here) display a different background color for a word, and all my tries that work well in browsers, are not understood by Crystal.
I know how to set bold, the foreground color, different font sizes, underlined, etc., but I just do not get the background color to work. So the answer to this question is simply a simple String of HTML.
This simply does not work. Stupid Crystal… we are migrating to Jasper Reports right now. For this and a bag of other reasons. Everyone in my company is hating Crystal Reports now.