XFA Specification
Chapter 15, Template Specification
Template Reference
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This designator also influences the default direction of text flow within this element. The text layout
engine may override this within portions or all of such text as per the rules in the
Unicode Annex 9
[UAX-9]
reference.
The value of this property must be one of the following:
ambient
Causes the ambient locale of the XFA application to be used.
localeName
A valid locale name that conforms to the syntax: language[_country]. Examples of valid locales are
zh
for Chinese and
en_CA
for English specific for Canada. For a complete list of valid locale values,
refer to the
IETF RFC 1766
[RFC1766] and
ISO 639
[ISO-639-1] /ISO
3166
[ISO-3166-1] specifications.
Note that this is the same set of locale names used by the
xml:lang
attribute defined in
[XML1.0].
When this property is absent or empty the default behavior is to inherit the parent object's locale. If the
outermost subform does not specify a locale it uses the ambient locale from the operating system. If the
operating system does not supply a locale it falls back onto
en_US
.
The margin property
A
box model
element that specifies one or more insets for an object.
For more information see "The
The maxH property
Maximum height for layout purposes. This attribute is relevant only if the enclosing container element is
growable
and has an
h
attribute whose value is null. If an
h
attribute is supplied, the container is not
vertically growable and this attribute is ignored.
If this attribute is not supplied, there is no limit. This attribute has no default. If
h
is omitted, a value must
be supplied for this attribute. Setting this attribute to "-1" is an error.
The maxW property
Maximum width for layout purposes.This attribute is relevant only if the enclosing container element is
growable
and has a
w
attribute whose value is null. If a
w
attribute is supplied, the container is not
horizontally growable and this attribute is ignored.
This attribute has no default. If
w
is omitted, a value must be supplied for this attribute. Setting this
attribute to "-1" is an error.
The minH property
Minimum height for layout purposes. This attribute is relevant only if the enclosing container element is
growable
and has an
h
attribute whose value is null. If an
h
attribute is supplied, the container is not
vertically growable and this attribute is ignored.
This attribute has no default. If
h
is omitted, a value must be supplied for this attribute. Setting this
attribute to "-1" is an error.