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Determines the width of a control. A numeric value must be assigned.

Syntax

control. Width


An Expression is returned.

  • When working with images and bitmap type variables, the value of the inserted control is proposed by default, but it can be modified to change its size. It indicates the control width in pixels.
     
  • When working with tables, cells, grids, grids columns describe the width desired for the tables. This can be specified in pixels (nnn) or as a percentage of the window width (nnn%). The browser has a complex heuristic that is applied to the tables and their cells to present a table in the best possible manner. When you fix this property, you replace this heuristic and focus the effort on putting the desired width according to what was specified. 
     
  • When working with tables, when you specify the values as percentages, these percentages are relative to the window or to the cell where the window is located. You must take into account that, when you assign a value to this property in a table, you are indicating the minimum desired value; i.e., if there is a larger control within the table, you will assign the required size to include this control. Thus, the size will be larger than the specified one. 
     
  • When working with an Edit control width is given in chr. In runtime, this value is included as a cols attribute of the text area.

Description

This property establishes the control width. It will be enabled only when the AutoResize property has the ‘False’ value.
 
Design Time: Applies to bitmap type variables, embedded pages, images, tables, table cells.
 
Execution Time: Applies to buttons, frames, grids, free style grids, texts, radio buttons, check boxes, dynamic combo boxes, combo boxes, edits, list boxes, dynamic list boxes, and tables.

Samples

  • photo.Width = 200 (photo is a bitmap control). The bitmap control’s width will be 200 pixels.

  • If we want a table to occupy the whole window width, we put width=100% in the table property. The same happens if we have a table within another one and we want the inside table to occupy the whole width of the outside table cell. 

  • If we want a table column to occupy the minimum size of 200 pixels, we put width=200 in one of the column's cells. 

  • If we have a table with 2 columns and we want the first one to occupy 80% and the second 20% regarding the table, we put the property width=80% for a cell of the first column. This will be enough, since the 20% of the second one will be deducted. 

  • Edit control Width = 120chr is created as <textarea cols="120"....>

Scope

Objects: Transaction, Web Panel
Platforms: Web(.Net, Java)
Controls: Embedded Page, FreeStyle Grid, Grid, Image, Table

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