SpaceBefore class

Office 2013 and later

Space Before. When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is a:spcBef.

Namespace:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing
Assembly:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml (in DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll)

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[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

spcBef (Space Before)

This element specifies the amount of vertical white space that is present before a paragraph. This space is specified in either percentage or points via the child elements spcPct and spcPts.

[Example: Consider the DrawingML shown below.

<p:txBody>
  …  <a:p>
    <a:pPr …>
      <a:spcBef>
        <a:spcPts val="1800"/>
      </a:spcBef>
      <a:spcAft>
        <a:spcPts val="600"/>
      </a:spcAft>
    </a:pPr>
    …    <a:t>
Sample Text</a:t>
    …  </a:p
>
  …</p:txBody>

The above paragraph of text is formatted to have a spacing both before and after the paragraph text. The spacing before is a size of 18 points, or value=1800 and the spacing after is a size of 6 points, or value=600. end example]

Parent Elements

defPPr (§21.1.2.2.2); lvl1pPr (§21.1.2.4.13); lvl2pPr (§21.1.2.4.14); lvl3pPr (§21.1.2.4.15); lvl4pPr (§21.1.2.4.16); lvl5pPr (§21.1.2.4.17); lvl6pPr (§21.1.2.4.18); lvl7pPr (§21.1.2.4.19); lvl8pPr (§21.1.2.4.20); lvl9pPr (§21.1.2.4.21); pPr (§21.1.2.2.7)

Child Elements

Subclause

spcPct (Spacing Percent)

§21.1.2.2.11

spcPts (Spacing Points)

§21.1.2.2.12

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_TextSpacing) is located in §A.4.1. end note]

© ISO/IEC29500: 2008.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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