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Style

The <style> tag within <styles> directly in the body allows you to create style classes you can reuse throughout the document. Each style needs to have an id so you can reference it later.

Example

<adx>
  <styles>
    <style
      name='fineprint'
      font='Courier'
      fontSize='9'
    />
    <style
      name='h1'
      fontSize='16'
      color='green'
      spaceBelowLine='20'
    />
    <style
      name='field_content'
      fontSize='16'
      spaceAboveLine='20'
      spaceBelowLine='20'
      titleWidth='100'
    />
  </styles>

  <body>
    <text class="h1" spaceAfter="10">
      Employment Contract
    </text>
    <pageBreak/>
    <text class="fineprint">
      Here goes some legal fineprint
    </text>
    <field
      title="Position"
      type="line_right"
      class="field_content"
      height="5cm"
      spaceBefore="1cm"
      spaceAfter="1cm"
    >
      Chief Technology Officer
    </field>
  </body>
</adx>

Attributes

name

The identifier of the style class. This is used to reference the style from elements via the class attribute (or titleClass for fields).

The following preset style names are applied automatically to matching elements and can be overridden:

  • default — fallback style used when no class is specified
  • h1, h2 — default styles for <h1> and <h2> elements
  • field_title — default style for the title of <field> elements
  • field_content — default style for the value of <field> elements
  • fineprint — smaller gray text style
  • table — default style used inside <table> cells

font (optional)

The font family to use, e.g. Helvetica, Courier. See Font support.

fontWeight (optional)

The font weight, e.g. normal or bold.

fontStyle (optional)

The font style, e.g. normal or italic.

fontSize (optional)

The font size in pt, mm or cm (e.g. fontSize="12").

align (optional)

Text alignment: left, right, center, or justify.

color (optional)

The text color. Can be a named color (e.g. red, black) or an RGB value (e.g. rgb(255, 10, 10) or #ff0a0a).

backgroundColor (optional)

The background color using the same format as color.

spaceBefore (optional)

Space before the element in pt, mm or cm.

spaceAfter (optional)

Space after the element in pt, mm or cm.

spaceAboveLine (optional)

For <field> styles that display a line: the space above the line. Default is 0.

spaceBelowLine (optional)

For <field> styles that display a line: the space below the line. Default is 0.

titleWidth (optional)

For <field> styles where the title is left of the value: the width of the title in pt, mm or cm.