HorizontalAlign Enumeration

Specifies the horizontal alignment of an object within a control.

The HorizontalAlign enumeration represents the horizontal alignment options for an item relative to its container control.

Member Name	Description
Center	The contents of a container are centered.
Justify	The contents of a container are uniformly spread out and aligned with both the left and right margins.
Left	The contents of a container are left justified.
NotSet	The horizontal alignment is not set.
Right	The contents of a container are right justified.

The sample below shows how to programmatically set the HorizontalAlign property of a DataGrid at run time, depending on user input. The code also demonstrates how simple it is to retrieve the available system horizontal align styles and dynamically add each to a selectable list.

void Page_Load ( Object src, EventArgs e ) {
   if ( !IsPostBack ) {
      ICollection h_aligns = 
         TypeDescriptor.GetConverter ( typeof ( HorizontalAlign ) ).GetStandardValues ( );

      foreach ( HorizontalAlign h in h_aligns ) {
         AlignSelect.Items.Add ( h.ToString ( ) );
      }
      AlignSelect.SelectedIndex = 2;

      string query = "SELECT Lastname, Firstname, Address, City, Country FROM nw_Employees";
      myGrid.DataSource = fetchData ( query, "northwind" );
      myGrid.DataBind ( );
   }
   myGrid.ItemStyle.HorizontalAlign = ( HorizontalAlign ) AlignSelect.SelectedIndex;
}

Sub Page_Load ( src As Object, e As EventArgs )
   If Not IsPostBack Then
      Dim h_aligns As ICollection = _
         TypeDescriptor.GetConverter ( GetType ( HorizontalAlign ) ).GetStandardValues ( )
      Dim h As HorizontalAlign
      For Each h In  h_aligns
         AlignSelect.Items.Add ( h.ToString ( ) )
      Next h
      AlignSelect.SelectedIndex = 2

      Dim query As String = "SELECT Lastname, Firstname, Address, City, Country FROM nw_Employees"
      myGrid.DataSource = fetchData ( query, "northwind" )
      myGrid.DataBind ( )
   End If
   myGrid.ItemStyle.HorizontalAlign = CType ( AlignSelect.SelectedIndex, HorizontalAlign )
End Sub

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