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Check Box

The Check Box control is intended to display True/False or Checked/Unchecked/Indeterminate states in a report, by displaying (or not) a check mark, which can be accompanied by a text description.

In the Property Grid , the Check Box control's properties are divided into the following groups.

• Background Color
  

  Specifies the background color for the control. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar  ().

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width
  

  Specify border settings for the control.

• Font
  

  Specifies the font settings for the control. Some of these settings are available in the Formatting Toolbar.

• Foreground Color
  

  Specifies the text color for the control. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar ().

• 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. 

• Padding
  

  Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of a Check Box.

• 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). 

• Text Alignment
  

  Allows you to change the alignment of the control's text. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar

• 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. The property setting is useful for data-bound Check Boxes located between upper and lower controls, which are allowed to resize depending on their contents.

• Keep Together
  

  Specifies whether the contents of a Check Box can be horizontally split across pages. In other words, if a Check Box occupies more space than remains on the page, this property specifies whether this Check Box 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 a Check Box's content does not fit on the current page. If it does not fit on the next page either, then the Check Box 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.

• Word Wrap
  

  When this property is set to Yes, text entered into a Check Box is wrapped to the next line if it doesn't fit the line.

• (Data Bindings)
  

  If the current report is bound to data, this property allows you to bind some of the control's properties (Bookmark, Check State, Navigation URL, Tag and Text) to a data field obtained from the report's data source, and to apply a format string to it. 
  

• Check State
  

  This property allows you to quickly specify the Checked/Unchecked/Indeterminate state of a Check Box (the Indeterminate state is displayed as a grayed out checked box.) Note that if you only want to use Checked and Unchecked states, you may use the Checked property, instead.

• Checked
  

  This property allows you to define whether a Check Box is checked or not.

• 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.

  
  

• Text
  

  Allows you to define a line of static text to be displayed. Note that when a Check Box is selected in the designer, you may simply start typing the text, and it will be automatically entered into the in-place editor.

  

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