[reportlab-users] Box with title and content portions having different background colors

[Roberto Alsina]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 19:24:29 Benjamin Higgins wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> I've been trying to create a box that looks like this:

>

> +----------------+

>

> | Title          |

> |+--------------+|

> |

> || Content      ||

> |

> |+--------------+|

>

> +----------------+

>

> I want the content area background to be white, and containing background

> gray.

>

> My first attempt was to use a 3x3 table.  This worked almost perfectly, but

> when the content is bigger than a page I get a LayoutError Flowable "too

> large" exception.  From reading the archives, I gather that table cells

> aren't able to be larger than a page.

>

> I'm now trying to find some other way to accomplish this design.

>

> Any tips?


How about just drawing the grey background and white boxes in beforePage?

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