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    aligning mobile app controls and buttons in UX

    Need some good guidance on aligning mobile app controls and buttons in UX. As its not "what you see what you get" if I have many controls and buttons aligning pixel perfect is becoming time consuming task. I tried many padding and margin settings in header, container but I am not able to do this without deep understanding of css. I will have many controls in each panel that need pixel perfect alignment based on html I receive from my manager. Now I can not just copy paste html as the panel cards will not take it in UX. There is some internal paddings thats creating alignment issues and to figure that out is going to each element, inspect it in chrome and then align...algnment.png
    Last edited by amitloh; 02-23-2018, 12:06 PM.
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    Re: aligning mobile app controls and buttons in UX

    Now it looks fine by increasing height but I do not want that. I need sub controls to get vertically aligned in the middle or top based on header height. Also if I try to put some padding it again misaligns the buttons. I want these buttons to be centrally aligned.algnment1.png
    The buttons are only getting aligned if I put height as 40px, as soon as I put height as 30 px it misaligns.

    It also aligns fine if I do not put any height at all but thats not good as I need to have some height to save vertical space on mobile.
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    Last edited by amitloh; 02-23-2018, 12:09 PM.

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      Re: aligning mobile app controls and buttons in UX

      I finally was able to figure out by adjusting container height css and padding properties but this requires lots of chrome browser inspection. alignment5.png

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        Re: aligning mobile app controls and buttons in UX

        Send it to Alpha and make it easy for them to fix, then everyone will benefit, well done.
        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
        Albert Einstein, (attributed)
        US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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          Re: aligning mobile app controls and buttons in UX

          Hey Peter!

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            Re: aligning mobile app controls and buttons in UX

            I agree with Pete, Mr Amit! Alpha needs to step up on some of this css stuff. I've had to keep a title on my header in order to keep everything aligned. If I don't have the static text box in place, Alpha's settings will cover up the disclosure menu, which is not nice.

            A tip someone gave me about Alpha's alignment issues: you can put a label in place above a field, but left blank without text to make sure everything stays put as it should. It's a crappy solution but it works.

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