JasperReports: Headers Not In The Same Line - jasper-reports

Question

The header of the report consists 10 elements it should look like this:
|1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10|
|--------------------|
In reality it look like this:
|1 2 8 9 10|
|---3 4 5 6 7 ------|
Is this something to do with the verticalAligment? I have set it to Bottom.
The snippet from my jrxml file:
<pageHeader>
<band height="0" isSplitAllowed="true" >
</band>
</pageHeader>
<columnHeader>
<band height="39" isSplitAllowed="true" >
<rectangle>
<reportElement
x="0"
y="1"
width="780"
height="30"
backcolor="#999999"
key="rectangle-1"/>
<graphicElement stretchType="NoStretch"/>
</rectangle>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="0"
y="0"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-1"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Holder Id]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="40"
y="0"
width="50"
height="30"
key="staticText-2"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Shell Id ]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="100"
y="1"
width="50"
height="30"
key="staticText-3"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Product Id]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="160"
y="1"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-4"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[SPID]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="200"
y="1"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-5"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Loc-
ation]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="300"
y="1"
width="50"
height="30"
key="staticText-6"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Date]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="350"
y="1"
width="30"
height="30"
key="staticText-7"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Normal Fare]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="380"
y="1"
width="30"
height="30"
key="staticText-8"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Actual Fare]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="410"
y="1"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-9"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Currency Code]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="450"
y="1"
width="30"
height="30"
key="staticText-10"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Staff Id]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="250"
y="1"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-11"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Dest-
ination]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="750"
y="0"
width="30"
height="30"
key="staticText-12"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[ISAM Seq.]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="700"
y="0"
width="50"
height="30"
key="staticText-13"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[ISAM Id]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="670"
y="0"
width="30"
height="30"
key="staticText-14"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Trans. Type]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="630"
y="1"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-15"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[CPICC]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="510"
y="1"
width="30"
height="30"
key="staticText-16"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Conc. Auth]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="480"
y="1"
width="30"
height="30"
key="staticText-17"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Suppl. Info.]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="540"
y="1"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-18"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Trans. Seq. No]]></text>
</staticText>
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="580"
y="1"
width="40"
height="30"
key="staticText-19"/>
<box></box>
<textElement verticalAlignment="Bottom">
<font size="8"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Rem. Uses]]></text>
</staticText>
</band>
</columnHeader>

Answer 1

Without seeing your JRXML file, the best guess would be one (or combination) of two things:
You do not have the vertical alignment set to Bottom for the fields 1,2,8,9,10.
You do not have the same height set for 1,2,8,9,10.
In addition to those two, you do not have the tops set at the same Top value set for all the elements. Again this is all a best guess without being able to see your JRXML. If it is not one of those you will need to post it, so we can help.

Answer 2

I have tried the stretch type, position type, flot etc.... bottom, asTallest, all sort of thing, it seems nothing worked
what I did was
to change the height of the which around all me header ReportElements from 39 to 20
and each height from 30 to 15
increase some width, make sure they are wide enough
the height 15 kind of forced the texts to stay in one line, give them no space to float,
I feel its a kind of ugly fix, my instinct tells me it must not be the greatest solution, but it works and I need finish it by today. free to post answers, I will accept yours if it works, and much more elegant.

Answer 3

please see the Y Position. It is not same for all heading. you give Y position 0 for 1, 2, 8, 9, 10 and y=1 for remaing item. please make sure all position is same.