vertical_anchor property

TextBox.vertical_anchor property

Specifies the vertical alignment of the text within a shape.

@property
def vertical_anchor(self) -> aspose.words.drawing.TextBoxAnchor:
    ...

@vertical_anchor.setter
def vertical_anchor(self, value: aspose.words.drawing.TextBoxAnchor):
    ...

Remarks

The default value is TextBoxAnchor.TOP.

Examples

Shows how to vertically align the text contents of a text box.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc)

shape = builder.insert_shape(aw.drawing.ShapeType.TEXT_BOX, 200, 200)

# Set the "vertical_anchor" property to "TextBoxAnchor.TOP" to
# align the text in this text box with the top side of the shape.
# Set the "vertical_anchor" property to "TextBoxAnchor.MIDDLE" to
# align the text in this text box to the center of the shape.
# Set the "vertical_anchor" property to "TextBoxAnchor.BOTTOM" to
# align the text in this text box to the bottom of the shape.
shape.text_box.vertical_anchor = vertical_anchor

builder.move_to(shape.first_paragraph)
builder.write("Hello world!")

# The vertical aligning of text inside text boxes is available from Microsoft Word 2007 onwards.
doc.compatibility_options.optimize_for(aw.settings.MsWordVersion.WORD2007)
doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + "Shape.vertical_anchor.docx")

See Also

• module aspose.words.drawing
• class TextBox