GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT attribute

The GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT attribute is used for a container to align its children to the parent container.

Syntax

GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT

Usage

By default, in a grid-based layout, child elements of a container are aligned locally inside the container layout cells. With the GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT attribute, you can force children to be aligned in the vertical or horizontal direction, according to the layout cells in the parent container of the container to which you assign this attribute.

Important: This feature is not supported on mobile platforms.

Note: The GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT attribute applies only to GROUP and SCROLLGRID containers used inside a parent GRID container.

When the group or scrollgrid containers are placed vertically over each other, the alignment applies on parent grid columns, and when the containers are placed side by side horizontally, the alignment applies on parent grid rows.

Example

With the next form definition, the elements in the four group boxes will align vertically and horizontally to the parent grid cells:

LAYOUT
GRID
{
<G ga       ><G gb       >
 Some text
[a          ]  b[b     ]
<           ><           >
<G gc       ><G gd       >
[c          ]  d[d     ]
<           ><           >
}
END
END
ATTRIBUTES
GROUP ga: GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT;
GROUP gb: GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT;
GROUP gc: GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT;
GROUP gd: GRIDCHILDRENINPARENT;
EDIT a = FORMONLY.f_a;
EDIT b = FORMONLY.f_b;
EDIT c = FORMONLY.f_c;
EDIT d = FORMONLY.f_d;
END