Question

The header of the report consists 10 elements it should look like this:

|1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10|
|--------------------|

In reality it look like this:

|1 2          8 9 10|
|---3 4 5 6 7 ------|

Is this something to do with the verticalAligment? I have set it to Bottom.

The snippet from my jrxml file:

<pageHeader>
    <band height="0"  isSplitAllowed="true" >
    </band>
</pageHeader>
<columnHeader>
    <band height="39"  isSplitAllowed="true" >
        <rectangle>
            <reportElement
                x="0"
                y="1"
                width="780"
                height="30"
                backcolor="#999999"
                key="rectangle-1"/>
            <graphicElement stretchType="NoStretch"/>
        </rectangle>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="0"
                y="0"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-1"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Holder Id]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="40"
                y="0"
                width="50"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-2"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Shell Id ]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="100"
                y="1"
                width="50"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-3"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Product Id]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="160"
                y="1"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-4"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[SPID]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="200"
                y="1"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-5"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Loc-
ation]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="300"
                y="1"
                width="50"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-6"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Date]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="350"
                y="1"
                width="30"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-7"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Normal Fare]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="380"
                y="1"
                width="30"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-8"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Actual Fare]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="410"
                y="1"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-9"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Currency Code]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="450"
                y="1"
                width="30"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-10"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Staff Id]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="250"
                y="1"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-11"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Dest-
ination]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="750"
                y="0"
                width="30"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-12"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[ISAM Seq.]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="700"
                y="0"
                width="50"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-13"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[ISAM Id]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="670"
                y="0"
                width="30"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-14"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Trans. Type]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="630"
                y="1"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-15"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[CPICC]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="510"
                y="1"
                width="30"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-16"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Conc. Auth]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="480"
                y="1"
                width="30"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-17"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Suppl. Info.]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="540"
                y="1"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-18"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Trans. Seq. No]]></text>
        </staticText>
        <staticText>
            <reportElement
                x="580"
                y="1"
                width="40"
                height="30"
                key="staticText-19"/>
            <box></box>
            <textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <font size="8"/>
            </textElement>
        <text><![CDATA[Rem. Uses]]></text>
        </staticText>
    </band>
</columnHeader>

Answer 1

I have tried the stretch type, position type, flot etc…. bottom, asTallest, all sort of thing, it seems nothing worked

what I did was

• to change the height of the which around all me header ReportElements from 39 to 20
• and each height from 30 to 15
• increase some width, make sure they are wide enough

the height 15 kind of forced the texts to stay in one line, give them no space to float,
I feel its a kind of ugly fix, my instinct tells me it must not be the greatest solution, but it works and I need finish it by today. free to post answers, I will accept yours if it works, and much more elegant.