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:
- By their left
edges.
- By their right
edges.
- By their tops.
- By their bottoms.
- By their centers
(either horizontally or vertically).
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:
-
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.
-
Then
select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these
controls are blue.
-
In the
Layout menu, click Align, and then click Left in
the submenu.
or
Click the Align Edges button in the
Layout toolbar. Then click the 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:
-
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.
-
Then
select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these
controls are blue.
-
In the
Layout menu, click Align, and then click Right in
the submenu.
or
Click the Align Edges button in the
Layout toolbar. Then click the 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:
-
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.
-
Then
select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these
controls are blue.
-
In the
Layout menu, click Align, and then click Top in
the submenu.
or
Click the Align Edges button in the
Layout toolbar. Then click the 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:
-
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.
-
Then
select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these
controls are blue.
-
In the
Layout menu, click Align, and then click Bottom in
the submenu.
or
Click the Align Edges button in the
Layout toolbar. Then click the 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:
-
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.
-
Then
select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these
controls are blue.
-
In the
Layout menu, click Align, and then click Center
horizontally or Center vertically in
the submenu.
or
Click the Align Edges button in the
Layout toolbar. Then click one of the Center buttons
in the
pop-up toolbar.
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Procedure: How to Align Prompted Edit Boxes Along the Left Sides of the Edit Boxes
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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.
-
Then
select the controls you want to move. Notice that the handles on these
controls are blue.
-
In the
Layout menu, click Align, and then click Center
vertically in the submenu.
or
Click the Align Edges button in the
Layout toolbar. Then click the Center vertically button in the
pop-up toolbar.