Aligning Controls

How to:

Your forms will look more polished if the controls are neatly aligned. WebFOCUS Maintain provides many alignment tools to help align your controls.

You can align controls:

You can align prompted edit boxes along the left sides of the edit boxes.


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Procedure: How to Align Controls Along Their Left Sides

To align controls along their left sides:

  1. Select the control to whose left side you want the other controls to be aligned. This is the anchor control. Notice that the handles on this control are green.
  2. Then select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these controls are blue.
  3. In the Layout menu, click Align, and then click Left in the submenu.

    or

    Click the Align Edges button Align Edges button in the Layout toolbar. Then click the Left button Left button in the pop-up toolbar.


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Procedure: How to Align Controls Along Their Right Sides

To align controls along their right sides:

  1. Select the control to whose right side you want the other controls to be aligned. This is the anchor control. Notice that the handles on this control are green.
  2. Then select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these controls are blue.
  3. In the Layout menu, click Align, and then click Right in the submenu.

    or

    Click the Align Edges button Align Edges button in the Layout toolbar. Then click the Right button Right button in the pop-up toolbar.


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Procedure: How to Align Controls Along Their Tops

To align controls along their tops:

  1. Select the control to whose top you want the other controls to be aligned. This is the anchor control. Notice that the handles on this control are green.
  2. Then select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these controls are blue.
  3. In the Layout menu, click Align, and then click Top in the submenu.

    or

    Click the Align Edges button Align Edges button in the Layout toolbar. Then click the Top button Top button in the pop-up toolbar.


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Procedure: How to Align Controls Along Their Bottoms

To align controls along their bottoms:

  1. Select the control to whose bottom you want the other controls to be aligned. This is the anchor control. Notice that the handles on this control are green.
  2. Then select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these controls are blue.
  3. In the Layout menu, click Align, and then click Bottom in the submenu.

    or

    Click the Align Edges button Align Edges button in the Layout toolbar. Then click the Bottom button Bottom button in the pop-up toolbar.


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Procedure: How to Align Controls Along Their Centers

To align controls along their centers:

  1. Select the control to whose centers you want the other controls to be aligned. This is the anchor control. Notice that the handles on this control are green.
  2. Then select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these controls are blue.
  3. In the Layout menu, click Align, and then click Center horizontally or Center vertically in the submenu.

    or

    Click the Align Edges button Align Edges button in the Layout toolbar. Then click one of the Center buttons Center button Center button in the pop-up toolbar.


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Procedure: How to Align Prompted Edit Boxes Along the Left Sides of the Edit Boxes
  1. Select the control to whose centers you want the other controls to be aligned. This is the anchor control. Notice that the handles on this control are green.
  2. Then select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these controls are blue.
  3. In the Layout menu, click Align, and then click Center vertically in the submenu.

    or

    Click the Align Edges button Align Edges button in the Layout toolbar. Then click the Center vertically button Center vertically button in the pop-up toolbar.


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