Text Borders disappering?

[Geoff]

Hi there,

We have set up may reports that are all working fine but have an issue with formatting....

Each report has been formatted so that when data is output to 'grid' type layout - using the detail section - we place a border around each text box to provide a simple layout that clearly shows all lines and columns of the report.

The borders are set using the properties toolbar and not via code.

Everything works fine when we run it in Preview mode - all formatting is correct.

But when the report is viewed in HTML mode any empty text boxes that have no value have no formatting - so no borders at all.

I have tried adding a Conditional Formatting rule to the boxes but this does not work either.

Its a weird one as we have managed to create may reports but cannout publish them for clients as when there is no data in a box it applies no formatting and as such the report looks terrible.

Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

[Steve]

Hello Geoff,

This is a known problem that slipped into the HTML rendering while we introduced changes to make it more  standards compliant and cross-browser. It is logged in our bug tracking system and we would do our best to address it for the upcoming release. For the time being you can use use as workaround the following:

• Apply top and bottom border for the detail section (or the section where the textbox reside) instead. Apply left/right border to the TextBox items.
• Place the TextBoxes in Panel item and apply the border to the Panel item instead

Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Geoff]

Many thanks for the quick response Steve - much appreciated.

No worries - As long as I know where the issue is thats fine.

I will put the workaround in place.

Again thanks for the information.

All the best

Geoff