Sets the horizontal and/or vertical alignment of content as displayed inside a presentation tag.
This field lets you to specify whether text and other content inside an object should be aligned to the left margin, right margin, top or bottom, centred, etc.
<box align={right} {This text is aligned to the right}>
- Aligns the content of a box to its right margin.
<box width=console.width height=console.height align={center},{middle} {This text is in the middle of the screen.}>
- Creates a box as large
as the console frame and
The align field takes 1 or 2 text values as follows:
align={horizontal value}...or...
align={horizontal value}, {vertical value}
For horizontal value, the following values are valid:
horizontal value | interpretation |
---|---|
null | Leaves the horizontal alignment unspecified. |
{left} | Content aligned against left margin, and ragged on the right. |
{right} | Content aligned against right margin, and ragged on the left. |
{center} | Content is centred; text is ragged on both sides. |
{justify} | Text is aligned on both sides. |
For vertical value (if specified), the following values are valid:
Note:
not all tags support vertical alignment
vertical value | interpretation |
---|---|
null | Leaves the vertical alignment unspecified. |
{top} | Content aligned to the top. This may be relative to the container or relative to surrounding elements; the meaning depends on the tag it is applied to. |
{middle} | Content aligned to a common vertical centre. (The same caveat as for {top} applies.) |
{bottom} | Content is aligned to the bottom. (The same caveat as for {top} applies.) |
{baseline} | Content is aligned relative to the baseline of other elements. (The same caveat as for {top} applies.) |