color change on page change

Hi

I am following a pattern of changing the background color of every 3rd row ,it is working fine but i want this to start from first line on page change (i m taking pdf output). i.e every time the page changes the 1st row should have different background color irrespective of where it ended on the last page .

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Vineet

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johnw

You will need to reset a counter in the onPageBreak event. There are some other things you can try using HTML CSS styles and do this clientside which will work also.

Vineet Joshi

Thanks john for replying

can u pls explain me in detail..

Regards
Vineet

johnw

You can set an Highlight expression to do the color alternating. If you select the root page or table, there is an onPageBreak event. Reset your counter in there.

Otherwise, you can do some javascript trickery using a Text element set to HTML. BIRT reports usually just render out to HTML, so you can use the same DOM manipulations and style changes you do in HTML, as long as you can find the ID or traverse a DOM tree.