Display html in jasper reports (static) text field

I have this text in a static text field in jasper reports jrxml

<div style='width: 200px;height: 200px; border: 5px solid red; background-color:red'></div>

If I style the field as 'None', i can see the raw html in preview, however, if I style it as html, then nothing is displayed all all. Obviously its a 200px x 200px red box with a black 5px border. Is there something i can do to have this html displayed inpreview?

Solution

Markup is responsible for text representation only. There is only a limited set of supported markup tags listed at JasperReports Ultimate Guide:







<li>

As you can see they are all related to text formatting.

If you need a red square you can draw it manually by adding rectangle with needed background color and border. Lightly modified example of rectangle element from the same guide:

  <rectangle>
    <reportElement x="0" y="350" width="200" height="200" backcolor="#ff0000"/>
    <graphicElement>
      <pen lineWidth="2"/>
    </graphicElement>
  </rectangle>