Hi, I need to render HTML/RTF formatted data in SSRS reports, Please let me know asap. (I could not find the "create placeholder" property after right clicking textbox on SSRS) Thanks in advance

HTML formatting is available in SSRS 2008 and above. You need to select and right-click the actual text, or if the textbox has a single paragraph, press Ctrl+A to select the entire text while in edit mode. Then, in the Placeholder Properties dialog box (General tab), select the "HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles" option. Teo Lachev, Prologika LLC http://www.prologika.com

Hi IRM E-ZEST,If we are using SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 or above, we can use PlaceHolder to hander some HTML tags. If we are using SQL Server Reporting Services 2005, and want to display RTF text, we can render the RTF file into IMG file, and then display the image on the report.Nayan Patel written good artilce about this: http://binaryworld.net/Main/CodeDetail.aspx?CodeId=4049This article give us the idea to convert RTF to image and then display on the report.For more information about rendering HTML in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, please see:Formatting Text and Importing HTML: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645967.aspxIf you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.Thanks,Jin ChenJin Chen - MSFT

I followed teh directions for creating a placeholder and checking the interpret HTML Tags checkbox but on my report the italics html tags show as plain text it doesn't do anything for the formatting of the text. Am I missing something?

did you ever find an answer for that italic font ? i'm facing the same issue... SSRS renders <i> and </i> correctly but our richtext control saves it in a span with style attribute