Dear All, I was wondering if there is a way to have gradient colors in Reporting Services. I would like to achieve the effect of fading gradient style in the header of my table(s). I have heard that CSS could potentially be the way to achieve this, if so how? Any help will be much appreciated Thanks

I do not believe this is possible. Could be wrong, but I have never seen anything that could do this. Work around Create the gradiant as an image. embed image in report. set backgroundImage = gradiantimage

Thanks David, I initally thought of using that solution but I belive this will increase the rendering timeof the report. At the moment this is the best solution possible and I will implement this, unless I can find an answer to the CSS solution. Thanks

If you find an answer to the css solution, please post it back here. I would be interested in seeing it.

Note that in SSRS 2008, you can use gradients as fills on several objects. -Sean

Gradient colors are only supported in chart and gauge report items. As an alternative to using an image as a backgound, you can try creating a chart, set it's background to whatever gradient you want, hide all the chart elements so that you only see the gardient fill and use that chart as your report background.

Hi, how to give gradient colors in back ground in textbox of ssrs report

Carsten, I am having the same issue so I tried following your suggestions. I am using Report Builder 2.0 with SQL Server 2008. The problem is when I insert the chart into the table cell or row the data in the table doesn't appear. I have hidden all the parts of the chart so that only the gradient fill shows but the table data gets hidden behind the chart. Any ideas.. Vik