Setting Text Properties

Use

You are able to change the display of text in the ALV output. Depending on whether the text is located in the ALV output itself or in the header of the list, for example, you have different options.

Note

The following sections mainly deal with how you change the display of alphanumeric columns. With numeric columns there are additional options. For more information about this, see Changing the Display of Numeric Values.

Features

You are able to make the following settings for text properties:

Set Font
Set Alignment of the Text in the Column
Determine Lowercase and Uppercase
Determine display of empty cells
Changing text color
Modifying the content display using conversion routines

Set Font

You are able to change the font of text in the design object (header and footer area of page or list) and in the tree structure.

Font in Design Object

In the classic ABAP list, the various element types that you are able to use in a design object differ in the font. In the other two display types they different font, font size and font color. The following graphic provides a comparison of the fonts as they are set in the various display types for the ALV output for the four element types.

This is how you set the font in the design object using a Choice of Element Type.

Font in the Tree Structure

You are able to choose between three fonts in each item:

Standard font
A non-proportional font (all characters require the same amount of space)
A proportional font (characters have different widths)

ALV Tool	Display type	Function available
Simple, Two-Dimensional Table	Classic ABAP List	No
Fullscreen	No
In the Container	No
Hierarchical-sequential list	Classic ABAP List	No
Tree structure	Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes

Function	Class	Method
Get font of an item	CL_SALV_ITEM	SET_FONT
Get font of an item	GET_FONT

Set Alignment of the Text in the Column

You are able to set where the content of a column will be put:

Justified left
Centered
Right-justified

You are able to change the alignment of text in the design object (header and footer area of page or list) and in the ALV output.

Alignment in the ALV Output

You are able to set the alignment of the text for each column in the ALV output separately.

ALV Tool	Display type	Function available
Simple, Two-Dimensional Table	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes
Hierarchical-sequential list	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Tree structure	Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes

Function	Class	Method
Set alignment of the column	CL_SALV_COLUMN	SET_ALIGNMENT
Get alignment of the column	GET_ALIGNMENT

Alignment in the Design Object

For the following elements, you are able to set the alignment in the design object:

Header
Action information
Label
Text

The alignment is only applicable when the following applies:

The text is in a table-type layout.
The column in which the text is located is wide enough.

You set the alignment for each text element individually.

ALV Tool	Display type	Function available
Simple, Two-Dimensional Table	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes
Hierarchical-sequential list	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Tree structure	Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes

Function	Class	Method
Set alignment in the design object	CL_SALV_FORM_ACTION_INFO CL_SALV_FORM_HEADER_INFO CL_SALV_FORM_LABEL CL_SALV_FORM_TEXT	SET_HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT
Get alignment in the design object	GET_HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT

Determine Lowercase and Uppercase

If the texts in the internal data table use both uppercase and lowercase letters, you are able to choose whether they will be maintained in the ALV output or whether the lowercase letters should be converted to uppercase letters.

ALV Tool	Display type	Function available
Simple, Two-Dimensional Table	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes
Hierarchical-sequential list	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Tree structure	Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes

Function	Class	Method
Convert lowercase letters to uppercase	CL_SALV_COLUMN	SET_LOWERCASE
Check whether lowercase letters are to be converted to uppercase letters	IS_LOWERCASE

Determine display of empty cells

You are able to determine whether empty cells are to contain a zero or a space.

ALV Tool	Display type	Function available
Simple, Two-Dimensional Table	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes
Hierarchical-sequential list	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Tree structure	Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes

Function	Class	Method
Determine display of empty cells	CL_SALV_COLUMN	SET_ZERO
Check how empty cells are to be displayed	IS_ZERO

Modifying the content display using conversion routines

You can provide a converison routine in the domain of a data element that modifies the content of a cells in the required way. All values of a column are then changed in the same way.

ALV Tool	Display type	Function available
Simple, Two-Dimensional Table	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes
Hierarchical-sequential list	Classic ABAP List	Yes
Tree structure	Fullscreen	Yes
In the Container	Yes

Function	Class	Method
Defining the Conversion Routine	CL_SALV_COLUMN	SET_EDIT_MASK
Getting the Conversion Routine	GET_EDIT_MASK