Display HTML content inside a table cell - BIRT report designer

Question

I have a dataset in which one of the column has html tags. When I try to bind the data column with a cell inside a table, the data is being displayed as it is - I see the html tags like < br >,< br > in the cell. Is there a way I can get rid of the tags and display the data with proper formatting?

Answer 1

Yes. But a data item does not work for this. You'll have to use a text item, and inside the text item, reference the data as row["MY_COLUMN"] (you know, what I mean). It is important to switch the text item's Content Type from the default Plain to HTML.