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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com> on 2004/07/01 09:59:44 UTC

Re: Auto-sized block?

Richard Evans wrote:

> I want to have a block of text with a border and background colour which 
> is just wide enough for the text.
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve tried fo:block with border and background-color attributes but the 
> block always seems to extend across the whole page.

You need to use fo:inline or fo:inline-container for what you want. 
Unfortunately these elements have not been implemented properly, i.e. border 
and background color do not apply, and fo:inline is functionally the same as 
fo:wrapper.

Chris



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