PanelStyle.Direction Property

 

Gets or sets the direction in which to display controls that include text in a panel control.

Namespace:   System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Public Overridable Property Direction As ContentDirection

Property Value

Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentDirection

One of the ContentDirection values. The default is NotSet.

Exception Condition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The direction is not one of the ContentDirection values.

The Direction property specifies the direction in which to display controls that include text in a panel control.

The Direction property is set using one of the ContentDirection values. The following table lists the possible values.

Value

Description

NotSet

The content direction is not set.

LeftToRight

Child controls that include text are displayed from left to right.

RightToLeft

Child controls that include text are displayed from right to left.

If you specify LeftToRight, child controls that include text display from left to right. If you specify RightToLeft, child controls that include text display right to left. Use RightToLeft to display text for languages that are written from right to left, such as Arabic or Hebrew.

The following code example sets the Direction properties of two panel controls, Panel1 and Panel2, to the ContentDirection.LeftToRight enumeration value. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the PanelStyle class.

Partial Class PanelStylevb_aspx
    Inherits Page

    Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

        Dim panelState As StateBag = New StateBag()
        Dim myPanelStyle As PanelStyle = New PanelStyle(panelState)

        ' Set the properties of the PanelStyle class.
        myPanelStyle.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
        myPanelStyle.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Both
        myPanelStyle.Wrap = False
        myPanelStyle.Direction = ContentDirection.LeftToRight
        myPanelStyle.BackImageUrl = "~\images\picture.jpg"

        ' Use the ApplyStyle method of the Panel control to apply
        ' the settings from the myPanelStyle object.
        Panel1.ApplyStyle(myPanelStyle)
        Panel2.ApplyStyle(myPanelStyle)

    End Sub

End Class

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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