KB108940 - INFO: Text Alignment in Single Line Edit Controls

PSS ID Number: 108940

Article Last Modified on 7/12/2000

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK)
Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1

This article was previously published under Q108940

SUMMARY

Text in single line edit controls cannot be centered or right-aligned (right-justified). Text in single line edit controls is left-aligned (left-justified) by default. This is by product design, and therefore specifying the ES_RIGHT or ES_CENTER style while creating the single line edit control does not have any effect on the text alignment.

MORE INFORMATION

Windows does not allow text to be centered or right-aligned in a single line edit control. However, an easy way to work around this problem is to create a multiline edit control that is the same size as a single line edit control. For additional information on how to calculate the height of the edit control, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

124315 HOWTO: Calculate the Height of Edit Control to Resize It

Text in a multiline edit control can be centered or right/left aligned. Note that the multiline edit control should be created without the WS_VSCROLL or ES_AUTOVSCROLL style.

While single line edit controls may support text alignment in a future release of Windows, Windows 3.x applications must use multiline edit controls to achieve the same effect.

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