Horizontal and Vertical Alignment

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Use the HorizontalAlignment property of the column's Style object to control the horizontal placement of cell text within a column. The allowable values for this property are as follows:

The setting AlignHorzEnum.General, which is the default for data cells, indicates that the alignment should be based upon the underlying data type. For example, strings are left-aligned, while numbers are right-aligned.

Use the VerticalAlignment member of the Style object to control the vertical placement of text within the cells of a grid, split, or column. The allowable values for this property are as follows:

For data cells, the default value is AlignVertEnum.Top. For static grid elements such as caption bars, column headers, and column footers, the default value is AlignVertEnum.Center. See the Named Style Defaults topic to learn how the default values are derived.

The following grid depicts all possible combinations of the HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment properties.

	AlignHorzEnum.Near	AlignHorzEnum.Center	AlignHorzEnum.Far
AlignVertEnum.Top
AlignVertEnum.Center
AlignVertEnum.Bottom

The AlignHorzEnum.General and AlignHorzEnum.Justify settings have been omitted because the AlignHorzEnum.General setting aligns text as AlignHorzEnum.Near and numeric values as AlignHorzEnum.Far. The AlignHorzEnum.Justify setting aligns text with respect to the cells boundaries, but in this case appears exactly like the AlignHorzEnum.Near setting.

The HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment properties are tightly integrated with the concept of styles. For more information, see How to Use Styles.