stretch(overflow if data exceeds) a textfield in jasper reports

Question

I have a textfield above subreport in detail section, the textfield doesn't stretch if data overflow due to the subreport, If i remove the subreport it works as expected. What should i do to stretch the textfield.

this is my detail section:-

Answer 1

set subreport's position type = "float".. try with this it will work.