Introduction

The Show Full Fact Value function and its window can be used to examine text block tags more closely in the Auditor. You can find this function in the context menus of the Presentation-Linkbase and the TableView. If this menu item is not displayed, the selected entry is probably not a text block tag. The window is divided into two views. The Text View and the HTML View. Additionally there is a settings button to configure the different views.

Text View

The Text View shows the tagged content of the fact value. Although for text blocks this content can also include HTML formatting information, this information is hidden. To see the actual and complete fact value click the settings button and activate Remove HTML.

HTML View

The HTML View also shows the fact value, but here the XHTML formatting information is applied to the display.

In addition to the actual text, an XHTML document also contains information about the display, such as font color, font size, text alignment and positioning. This layout information can be stored directly within the respective text or elsewhere in the document, for example in separate style blocks. Both methods are common approaches in XHTML development.

However, the Show Full Fact Value function analyzes an XHTML document in a way that was not originally intended: it only displays an isolated portion of the content. Specifically, the value of a certain fact.

A problem arises when the layout information relevant to the correct display is not contained directly in the fact element, but is located elsewhere in the document. While this is not a problem in the full XHTML document, viewing excerpts in isolation can cause unexpected display problems. For example:

Text may appear oversized due to missing font size definitions.
Overlapping text blocks could occur if positioning rules are absent.
Wrong colors like black text on black backgrounds.

To address these issues, the Full Fact Value window provides options to remove existing layout information, leaving only the plain text content. This ensures better readability and prevents formatting inconsistencies. Strictly speaking, however, the display then no longer corresponds to the actual tagged value because certain formatting information is removed. In many cases, however, this is necessary to ensure that the core content remains understandable. This cleanup can be crucial for readability, especially if the layout of the document is not designed to display individual elements in isolation. These optimizations can be deactivated. In the settings via the items Remove table formatting and Remove span + div formatting.

If tables are recognized in the XHTML, they are highlighted by a colored border. This highlighting can be deactivated in settings of this window. Select Highlight XHTML tables with colored borders. The color of the highlighting can be changed in the Settings in the main menu of the application. It is identical to the color used to highlight the tables in the iXBRL Viewer.

Why is the content overplapping or not fully visible?

If you turn off Remove table formatting and Remove span + div formatting, it may happen that the text is no longer readable afterwards. It can even happen that paragraphs overlap or are pushed out to the side.
The cause of these problems is the use of absolute positions of paragraphs or tables. For example, a paragraph can be specified to have a certain distance from the left and top edges of its parent element. In a complete document this can work out fine but facts are often only parts of a report and they lack the formatting surrounding them. Then it can happen that paragraphs are displayed in the same position. They lack the parent elements in which they are normally embedded.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<body>
		<p style="position: absolute; top: 125px; left: 125px; width: 300px; 
		background-color: rgba(0,0,255,.2);font-size:20px;">
			<b>
				This is the first paragraph.
			</b> 
			Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod 
			tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. 
			At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.
		</p>
		<p style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 10px; width: 300px;
		 background-color: rgba(255,0,0,.2);font-size:20px;">
			<b>
				This is the second paragraph.
			</b>
	 	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod 
		tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.
		At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. 
	</p>
</body>
</html>

Result in Browser

HTML Code

In the example shown, the paragraphs have been positioned so that they overlap. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the first paragraph in the code comes before the second paragraph, but is displayed after it. This is caused by the positioning.

See also: Removing HTML and Unicode