XFA Specification
Chapter 15, Template Specification
Template Reference
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The layout property
Layout strategy to be used within this element.
position
The content of the element is positioned according to the to the location information expressed
on the content elements.
lr-tb
The content of the element is flowed in a direction proceeding from left to right and top to
bottom.
rl-tb
Reserved for future use. The content of the element is flowed in a direction proceeding from right
to left and top to bottom.
row
This is an inner element of a table, representing one or more rows. The objects contained in this
element are cells of the table and their height and width attributes, if any, are ignored. The cells
are laid out from right to left and each one is adjusted to the height of the row and the width of
one or more contiguous columns.
table
This is the outer element of a table. Each of its child subforms or exclusion groups must have its
layout
property set to
row
. The rows of the table are laid out from top to bottom.
tb
The content of the element is flowed in a direction proceeding from top to bottom.
The locale property
A designator that influences the locale used to format the localizable content of this element. Such
localizable content includes currency and time/date. Locale affects the representation of data formatted,
validated, or parsed by picture clauses. Locale is also considered by certain FormCalc functions.
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].