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

[Benjamin Higgins]

Well, there's going to be any number of these boxes appearing - it could be
just one or maybe a dozen, each with different contents and heights - so I
was hoping to implement it as a flowable element.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Roberto Alsina
<ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar>wrote:


> 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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