Shrink the space between rows in a report

Question

hi all,
As the subject says, I am trying to shrink the space between rows in a report so that there is no space between rows when i print it. Does anyone know how to do this? Do I need to make a custom report template for it?

Answer 1

The space between rows in a report in Apex is frequently determined by the cellpadding and cellspacing attributes of the TABLE tag that makes up the innermost report area, but there also other factors that may affect the resulting area, so one has to look at the specific case and see what is determining the final result, bearing in mind that it's quite possible that two browsers will display the same thing differently.
At any rate, spacing is normally controlled by fine-tuning margin and padding properties in CSS.
As CSS stylesheets, as per their name, are applicable in cascade, you can add your own CSS stylesheet in the page header (after the built-in ones).
If you are using Firefox (with Firebug add-on installed) or Chrome or Safari, you can easily experiment with these properties and see the effects by temporarily setting or unsetting certain values and when you are satisfied, you can copy the resulting definitions into your stylesheet.
The fact you want to make some adjustments only when printing can be solved by means of the @media rule inside the stylesheet or by linking different stylesheets depending on the value of the media attribute in the LINK tag or by dynamically pointing to different stylesheets depending on whether Apex is rendering the page in printer-friendly mode or not.
Flavio
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