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Properties in the View Designer
  • cellBackgroundDesign

    Display of the cell background. The default value of this property is transparent. You can use the background colors fill1, fill2, and fill3 as separators between the individual semantically different cell contents.

    Value Description

    transparent

    The background is transparent. The individual cells are displayed without grid net lines.

    fill1

    The color corresponds to the value primarycolor of the design property of the Group UI element. *)

    fill2

    The color corresponds to the value secondarycolor of the design property of the Group UI element. *)

    fill3

    This color corresponds to the color value of the third level of a Tree UI element. *)

    plain

    White background

    header

    The color is identical with the color of the header area of a Tree UI element or a table.

    border

    This is the color of the cell borders. This value is used for nested grid layouts to create grid net lines.

    *) The colors to be displayed depend on the design topic and the documentation refers to the SAP Standard Design 2002.

  • cellDesign

    Distance between the cell content to the outer edge of the cell

    Value Visual Display Description

    rPad

    Specifies the distance to the top edge (2 pixels), the bottom edge (2 pixels), and the right edge (4 pixels) and thus prevents cell contents from touching.

    lrNoPad

    Specifies the distance to the top edge (2 pixels) and the bottom edge (2 pixels).

    lPad

    Specifies the distance to the top edge (2 pixels), the bottom edge (2 pixels), and the left edge (4 pixels).

    lrPad

    Specifies the distance to the top edge (2 pixels), the bottom edge (2 pixels), the left edge (4 pixels), and the right edge (4 pixels).

    padless

    There is no distance between the row and the edges.

  • colSpan

    Specifies the number of columns occupied by the UI element within the MatrixLayout.

  • height

    Height of the cell, specified in CSS sizes, such as em, ex, pixel, or percent. See alsoLegend.

  • hAlign

    Horizontal alignment of the content with the grid.

    Value Description

    center

    Centered alignment

    char

    Alignment to a special character The assignment of the char value allows you to align the cell contents to a single character.

    justify

    Justified - this value allows forced justification within a MatrixLayout cell.

    forcedLeft

    The text content is always left-justified, regardless of whether the value is ltr or rtl for the textDirection property.

    endOfLine

    The text content is always displayed at the end of the line. Therefore, the text content for the value ltr of the textDirection property is right-justified. The text content for the value rtl is left-justified.

    forcedRight

    The text content is always right-justified, regardless of whether the value is ltr orrtl for the textDirection property.

    beginOfLine

    The text content is always displayed at the beginning of line. Therefore, the text content for the value ltr of the textDirection property is left-justified. The text content for the value rtl is right-justified.

  • vAlign

    Vertical alignment of the UI element within the grid cell.

    Value Description

    baseline

    Alignment with a common baseline, the first text line is always displayed at the defined location.

    This option can lead to layout problems when embedding complex elements, such as containers. In this case use top.

    top

    Top-aligned - alignment with top edge.

    middle

    Centered vertically.

    bottom

    Bottom padding - alignment with bottom edge

  • vGutter

    Additional space between the cell contents. The default value of this property is none.

    Value Visual Display Description

    none

    No additional distance

    medium

    Additional horizontal distance of 17 pixels

    mediumWithRule

    Additional horizontal distance of 17 pixels with a vertical line

    large

    Additional horizontal distance of 31 pixels

    largeWithRule

    Additional horizontal distance of 31 pixels with a vertical line

    xLarge

     

    Additional horizontal distance of 63 pixels

    xLargeWithRule

     

    Additional horizontal distance of 63 pixels with a vertical line

  • width

    Width of the cell, specified in CSS sizes, such as em, ex, pixel, or percent. See alsoLegend.