TextView Properties

Use

design

Appearance of the TextView UI element. The portal themes delivered by SAP describe how the various options of the design attribute can be displayed.

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Value	Visualization	Description
emphasized		Text is highlighted and the font size is standard.
groupTitle		Title of forms Caution This enumeration value is deprecated. Instead, use a SectionHeader. If accessibility mode is activated, with TextView.design=groupTitle the TextView is not included in the tab chain, and must be repeated in the surrounding container. This is because a ScrollContainer or TransparentContainer with scrollingMode=none (TransparentContainer) has been used to group together form elements. The title should then be read by a screen reader when the user navigates to the container. For this reason the accessibilityDescription text of the ScrollContainer or TransparentContainer must be inserted. To prevent the text from being read twice, the tab chain does not contain the TextView with design=groupTitle.
header1		Text is highlighted and the size of the font is +4 relation to the standard size.
header2		Text is highlighted with font size +5.08 cm relation to the default font size.
header3		Text is highlighted and the font size is standard.
header4		Text is highlighted and the font size -1 in relation to the standard size (same as for legend, but highlighted)
label		Text is displayed in the standard font. An extra space is always added at the end of the text.
label_small		Text is displayed in the standard font; as with label, but font size is -1 (same as font size of header4)
legend		Text is displayed in the standard font and the font size -1.
reference		Text is displayed in italics and has the standard font size.
standard		The text is displayed in the standard font size. No text attributes are defined for this value.
monospace		Text is displayed in non-proportional font type. Each letter takes up the same space.

hAlign

Horizontal alignment of the content within the Textview UI element.

Note

For the positioning of the text we recommend that you set the hAlign value for the LayoutData of the UI element and TableColumn.hAlign, and that you do not use TextView.hAlign. However, if you do use TextView.hAlign, you must set TextView.layout=block, and define a suitable width.

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Value	Description
auto	Automatic alignment of the text content. The alignment is defined by the data type of the value to be displayed.
center	Centered alignment
forcedLeft	The text content is always left-justified, regardless of whether the textDirection property uses value ltr or rtl.
endOfLine	The text is always displayed at the end of the line. Therefore, if the textDirection property is set to ltr, the text content is right-justified. The text content for value rtl is left-justified.
forcedRight	The text content is always right-justified, regardless of whether the textDirection property is set to ltr or rtl.
beginOfLine	The text is always displayed at the beginning of the line. Therefore, if the textDirection property is set to ltr, the text content is left-justified. The text content for value rtl is right-justified.

layout

Layout of the text in the TextView.

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Value	Description	Can be Set Using Personalization
Block	Displays the TextView UI element in a <div> tag. See also the hAlign property.	Yes
native	Standard display Displays the TextView UI element in a <span> tag.	Yes
paragraph	Displays the TextView UI element in a <p> tag.	Yes

Value

Description

Can be Set Using Personalization

Block

Displays the TextView UI element in a <div> tag.

See also the hAlign property.

Yes

native

Standard display

Displays the TextView UI element in a <span> tag.

Yes

paragraph

Displays the TextView UI element in a <p> tag.

Yes

menuIndicator

If you set a value for this property, it only has an effect if a visible menu is assigned to the TextView (described below).

Value	Visualization	Description
iconPermanent		Returns a menu symbol after the TextView. The menu opens if the symbol is clicked on.
triangleOnHover		Standard display Returns a small triangle after the TextView, which appears when you hover the mouse over the TextView. The text color will change too. The menu opens if you click on the TextView or the triangle.
trianglePermanent		Returns a small triangle after the TextView, which is permanently visible. If you hover the mouse over the TextView, the color of the text and triangle changes. The menu opens if you click on the TextView or the triangle.

Value

Visualization

Description

iconPermanent

Returns a menu symbol after the TextView. The menu opens if the symbol is clicked on.

triangleOnHover

Standard display

Returns a small triangle after the TextView, which appears when you hover the mouse over the TextView. The text color will change too. The menu opens if you click on the TextView or the triangle.

trianglePermanent

Returns a small triangle after the TextView, which is permanently visible. If you hover the mouse over the TextView, the color of the text and triangle changes. The menu opens if you click on the TextView or the triangle.

semanticColor

Semantic color

With regard to accessibility make sure that the color description, "e.g. negative value", is automatically included in the tooltip. From the perspective of accessibility, colors must be used in accordance with their semantic meaning.

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Value	Visualization	Description
standard		Standard display
diminished		Greyed-out display
positive		Display as positive
critical		Display as critical
negative		Display as negative
marked1		First level selection
marked2		Second level selection

text

Label text

Note
Each occurrence of cl_abap_char_utilities=>newline in this property is replaced with a line break in the browser display.

Primary Property

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textDirection

Text or writing direction.

This enables labels of interface elements to be read in languages that have an RTL writing direction, such as Arabic or Hebrew, as opposed to LTR for languages like English.

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Value	Description
INHERIT	The text direction is inherited from the parent element. Therefore, the text direction is identical to that of the parent element.
LTR	Left to right text direction
RTL	Right to left text direction

width

Width of the UI element; see also Methods and Properties of UI Elements.

Width specification:
- wrapping=true
  
  If necessary the text is wrapped. The width cannot be guaranteed.
- wrapping=false
  
  The width of the text is precisely as specified. If necessary, the text output is cut short with "...".
wrapping

Specifies whether the text can be wrapped to the next line, if the space specified for the surrounding layout is no longer sufficient. Otherwise, the TextView becomes as wide as the space the text within it requires, and the surrounding layout is widened accordingly.

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