Itallic Text in Table header

Question

Hello All,
We are using the TableView Control in one of our aplications to display search results.When we built this particular application we were on EP6 SP2 PL 29.
Some how in that version teh header text in the tabledataview control was displaying italic text.
We used the following piece of code do this.
bean.setSearchHeader("Search Result(s) For: <i>"+ bean.getSearchString()+ " </i>("+ mySearch.getTrueResults()+ ")");"
This would display the keyword we searched for in Italic.
Now we have migrated from EP6 SP2 to EP6 SP16.
The correct portal version is:
J2EE Engine 6.40 PatchLevel 102141.313
Portal 6.0.16.0.0
KnowledgeManagementCollaboration 6.0.16.3.0 (NW04 SPS16 Patch3)
Now in this particular version when we search for any keywords.
The results are displayed but the header data does not show the keyword in Italics, however it displayes the "<i>" tag.
Let me know whether we can display italic text in table Header.
Thanks and Regards
Manoj Kumar
Message was edited by: Manoj Kumar

Answer 1

Hi,
to customize the header of the TableView change the header renderer.
1. implement IHeaderRenderer interface:
public class HeaderRenderer implements IHeaderRenderer {
public void renderHeader(TableView tableView, IPageContext pcontext) {
  TextView tv = new TextView();
  tv.setEncode(false);
  tv.setText("<i>italic header text</i>");
  tv.render(pcontext);
public boolean willRenderHeader(TableView tableView, IPageContext pcontext) {
  //allways render
  return true;
2. set the header renderer class to your TableView object:
tableView.setHeaderRenderer(new HeaderRenderer());
this should show the text in the table header in italics.
Romano