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Line

The Line control draws a line of a specified direction, style, width and color. It can be used for both decoration and visual separation of a report's sections. The Line cannot cross bands, as opposed to the Cross-band Line control.

In the Property Grid , the Line's properties are divided into the following groups.

• Background Color
  

  Specifies the background color for the control.

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width
  

  Specify border settings for the control.

• Foreground Color
  

  Specifies the Line's color.

• Formatting Rules

  Invokes the Formatting Rules Editor allowing you to choose which rules should be applied to the control during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. 

• Line Direction
  

  The line can be drawn vertically, horizontally and from one corner of the rectangle, representing the Line control, to another, across the rectangle. That is, Vertical, Horizontal, Slant and Back Slant types.

• Line Style
  

  You can select the solid (by default), dashed, dotted or mixed style for the line.

• Line Width
  

  Specifies the Line's width, in report measurement units.
  

• Padding
  

  Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the control.

• Style Priority
  

  Allows you to define the priority of various style elements (such as background color, border color, etc.). 

• Styles
  

  This property allows you to define odd and even styles for the control, as well as to assign an existing style to the control (or a newly created one).
  

• Anchor Vertically
  

  Specifies the vertical anchoring style of the control, so that after page rendering it stays attached to the top control, bottom control, or both.

• Keep Together
  

  Specifies whether the contents of the control can be horizontally split across pages. In other words, if the control occupies more space than remains on the page, this property specifies whether this control should be split between the current page and the next, or whether it will be printed entirely on the next page. This property is in effect only when the control's content does not fit on the current page. If it does not fit on the next page either, then the control will be split despite this property's value.

• Scripts
  

  This property contains events, which you can handle with the required scripts. 

• Visible
  

  Specifies whether the control should be visible in print preview.

• (Data Bindings)
  

  If the current report is bound to data, this property allows you to bind the control's Tag property.
  

• Tag
  

  This property allows you to add some additional information to the control; for example its id, by which it can then be accessible via scripts.
  

• (Name)
  

  Determines a control's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or via scripts.

• Location
  

  Specifies the control's location, in report measurement units.
  

• Size
  

  Specifies the control's size, in report measurement units.
  

• Snap Line Margin
  

  Specifies the margin (in report measurement units), which is to be preserved around the control when it is aligned using Snap Lines, or when other controls are aligned next to it
  

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