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# RedactionOverlayStartTag

A starting HTML tag to use to overlay redacted text when redacting values in PDF2-rendered documents, where View renders the PDF as a transparent text layer overlaid on an image rendering of the page.

NOTE: You can enable the PDF2 reader by editing the `formats_e.ini` file to set `200=pdf2sr`.

In PDF2-rendered documents, View surrounds the redacted text with HTML tags. By default, View uses black text on solid white, so that the replacement text is visible and obscures the underlying text in the image layer. Set `RedactionOverlayStartTag` and RedactionOverlayEndTag to modify the HTML tag that View uses around the text to redact.

To obscure the image text, always set the `RedactionOverlayStartTag` to a solid background color. If you need the replacement text to be legible, also set the `RedactionOverlayStartTag` to include a solid, contrasting text color. If you want to hide the relevant portion of the image behind a block of solid color, you can set the background and leave the text transparent.

TIP: To ensure your replacement text length corresponds to the length of the original text that is obscured in the image layer, consider using RedactionReplacementCharacter for the replacement text (rather than RedactionOutputString).

Type: | String
Default: | `<a style="COLOR: #000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;">`
Required: | No
Configuration Section: | MyRedactionSettings
Example: | `RedactionOverlayStartTag=`<a style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000;">``
See Also: | RedactionOverlayEndTag

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Version 26.3 | Last updated July 2026

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Product: Knowledge Discovery View Component 26.3

Topic Title: RedactionOverlayStartTag