Fluid layout on HTML render

spulci

Hi,

I'm looking at how birt engine renders report in the HTML output. I've noticed that each report as a global containe that is an HTML TABLE element. I can attach a css class to it specifying a 100% width. All other report elements are DIV element with their own styles with the exception of tables and grids (translated as TABLE elements).

I will not use grids but i'd like to have the main container of my html page to be rendered as a div instead of a table. Is it possible? I was looking at the solution in the master page of a report but I was not able to find it.

Next question: if I need a BIRT table on a report to be rendered inside a div with a css class, how can I obtain this result?

Thanks

Simone

johnw

Modify the HTML emitter. The section your looking for is in the startPage method, line 1434 (in the BIRT 2.6.1 source code). You would change the openTag call to use HTMLTags.DIV instead of Table.