"No wrapping" setting for field with right alignment

cpaul_it

I am trying to format a check "amount" field that shows the currency value, including the symbol, is right justified, and contains preceding filler characters to not allow alterations, like this:

*******$1,204.45 or ***$2,409,043.18

The leading asterisks were intended to fill the remaining length of the BIRT data column or field length. To accomplish that, I attempted to add a bunch of asterisks to the front of the formatted number, and I was hoping that since the field was right aligned with no wrapping that I would get what I desired; instead, the information shows as "************$1,2". Obviously, "no wrapping" is not displaying the right-most characters, but on a right-justified field, the right characters are often the most significant, so I was hoping that it would not display the left-most characters.

Any way to accomplish this within BIRT? I know I can get the length of the amount field in character count and estimate how many asterisks I would need, but I'd prefer that to be done at display time using the length of the BIRT data field.

Tubal

This is an HTML issue, not a BIRT issue. <br />
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The text-align property in HTML only applies when the text in the cell is smaller than the cell.<br />
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<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#inline-formatting'>http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#inline-formatting</a><br />
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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' ><p>When the total width of the inline-level boxes on a line is less than the width of the line box containing them, their horizontal distribution within the line box is determined by the 'text-align' property. If that property has the value 'justify', the user agent may stretch spaces and words in inline boxes (but not inline-table and inline-block boxes) as well.<br />
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When an inline box exceeds the width of a line box, it is split into several boxes and these boxes are distributed across several line boxes. If an inline box cannot be split (e.g., if the inline box contains a single character, or language specific word breaking rules disallow a break within the inline box, or if the inline box is affected by a white-space value of nowrap or pre), then the inline box overflows the line box.</p></blockquote>
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If you're set on having the asterisks leading your data, you'd probably have to go with your second option.