Page margin bands

The Top Margin and Bottom Margin bands represent the top and bottom page margins. Unlike other bands, they are not accompanied by strips displaying their titles in the Design Panel.

They are intended for displaying page numbers, or some sort of supplementary information (e.g. current system time or the user name).

In the Property Grid, the properties of these bands are divided into the following groups.

Appearance

Property	Description
BackColor	Specifies the background color for the controls contained within the band.
Borders, Border Color, Border Dash Style and Border Width	Specify border settings for the controls contained within the band.
Font	Specifies the font settings for the controls contained within the band.
ForeColor	Specifies the text color for the controls contained within the band.
Formatting Rules	Opens the Formatting Rules Editor allowing you to choose which rules should be applied to the band during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. To learn more on this, see Conditionally change a control's appearance.
Padding	Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the controls contained within the bands.
Style Priority	Allows you to define the priority of various style elements (such as background color, border color, etc.). For more information on style inheritance, see Understand styles concepts.
Styles	This property allows you to define odd and even styles for the controls contained within the bands, as well as to assign an existing style to them (or a newly created one). For more information on style inheritance, see Understand styles concepts.
Text Alignment	Allows you to change the text alignment of the controls contained within the bands.

Behavior

Property	Description
Scripts	This property contains events, which you can handle with the required scripts. For more information on scripting, see Handle events via scripts.
Visible	Specifies whether the band should be visible in Print Preview.

Data

Property	Description
Tag	This property allows you to add some additional information to the band; for example its id, by which it can then be accessible via scripts.

Design

Property	Description
(Name)	Determines a band's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or via scripts.

Layout

Property	Description
Height	Specifies the band's height, in report units. Note: This property is tied to the report's Margins.Top (or Margins.Bottom) property, so that changing this property's value will cause the appropriate Margin value to be changed, and vice versa.
Snap Line Padding	Specifies the padding (in report measurement units), which is to be preserved within the band when controls it contains are aligned using Snap Lines.