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    How to center a button in a Dialog component

    Does anyone know how to horizontally center a button in a dialog? I�ve tried everything I can think of. I changed the button Style to �text-align: center;�. I wrapped the button in a container and set the container�s style to �text-align: center;�. I even wrapped the container and the button in a frame and set every one of the frame�s style attributes to �text-align: center;�. The button always appears aligned to the left side of the dialog.

    The only way I can get it to center is to change the button�s Style to �margin-left: 100px;�. I don�t want to have to do it this way in case the width of my dialog changes in the future. Any ideas?

    I also want to center two buttons. I want two buttons to appear on the same line separated by 10 pixels horizontally. Again, I can do this with the margin attribute, but I would prefer to have the browser center the button group if possible in case my dialog width changes down the road.

    Thanks

    #2
    Re: How to center a button in a Dialog component

    I've been using the margins on the containers and using percentages instead of pixels so nothing will change.

    I agree, it is entirely too difficult to get things to center align, and not only buttons

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      #3
      Re: How to center a button in a Dialog component

      The alignment properties are only going to apply to whatever your button object resides within. If the <div>, <table> or whatever the button is inside is only 50px wide, then your button's margins aren't going to do you much good unless you define them as something other than percentages. You need to specify the container or free-form layout with wrapper tags (such as <p> or <div> or <span>) width property: width = 100%. Once that is accomplished, then setting the text-align: center property for the container/tag should center your button. So, something like...

      Code:
      <!--- in a free-form layout control>
      <p style="width:100%;text-align:center;">
      {MY_BUTTON}
      </p>
      Alpha Anywhere latest pre-release

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        #4
        Re: How to center a button in a Dialog component

        Jinx - Did you set the container's width to 100% and align: center? What about the button?

        Sarah - Thanks for your suggestion. So there is no way to get a button control to center using A5? I would have to use a free-form layout control and hand input my onclick event and button images HTML code?

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          #5
          Re: How to center a button in a Dialog component

          No, put the button into the container and set the left margin to a percentage. I think you can then set the right margin as well so 50-50. It's not perfect, but it gets me where I want to go

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            #6
            Re: How to center a button in a Dialog component

            Thanks Jinx.

            Sarah - Ok, I understand how it works now. I haven't done much work with Free-form layout controls. I thought I would have to manually enter all of the HTML code for my button. I see now that I can define a button control and set it to hidden. Hopefully, I can still use A5 to setup my onclick event, button images, etc.

            Thanks again.

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              #7
              Re: How to center a button in a Dialog component

              Sarah,

              My button is still displaying left justified. I added a free-form layout control and added the following code:

              <p style="width:100%;text-align:center;">{button:BUTTON_5}</p>

              I did not set any Style properties for the free-form layout control or the button control using A5's properties. The only A5 property I set is the width which is 130px.

              The free-form layout control is inside of a Frame control. I set the Frame's container style and it's pane style to "text-align: center;"

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                #8
                Re: How to center a button in a Dialog component

                Probably. Alpha nests your controls in a lot of divs & tables. You'll need to track down the offending tag in the hierarchy or set the width to something not a %. It's probably A5container.
                Alpha Anywhere latest pre-release

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