topic Re: Text Widget vertical alignment in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Text Widget vertical alignment

David_J_Winter — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:00:33 GMT

How do I vertically align text in a text widget ?

I have added a text widget to a card but cannot see how to center the text vertically.

i can see how to align horizontally but no equivalent for vertically is apparent.

Re: Text Widget vertical alignment

jcarlson — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:40:57 GMT

Set the element position to "vertical center". This will keep your text in the vertical center of the card.
Set the height of the text element to "Auto". That way as the length or size of the text changes, the selection box will be as tall as the text.

With those two settings together, your text will remain vertically centered in the card.

Re: Text Widget vertical alignment

Savannah2019 — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:22:30 GMT

I know this post is old, but the other answer wasn't exactly what I was looking for, so for anyone else looking for how to vertically align the text itself, not the text box, I have a work-around. Put the text box in a column widget and set the column's setting "Vertical align" to center.

Re: Text Widget vertical alignment

RobertAnderson3 — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:10:25 GMT

The above solutions don't really work for me either, I have a text widget in a list widget, and it doesn't appear I can add a column into that list widget, so I can't use that technique to vertically center the text.

Can we please get this as a setting on the text widget itself?

Re: Text Widget vertical alignment

yoga — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:41:08 GMT

If people are still looking for an answer to this one:

Under Style, select "Auto" or "Custom" as the height. This will enable an align option that you can use to "Center", "Top" or "Bottom" align your text in the textbox.

The align option is hidden by default for the "Stretch" Height option.

Re: Text Widget vertical alignment

JasminePrater — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:28:03 GMT

This solution worked for what I needed, but if the text box size changes on different screens, there is a gap between the map and the text box. Any recommendations on how to force the map widget to dynamically adjust its height based on the height of the text box widget? Expanding the map to the top of the page accomplishes this, but the text box covers the upper buttons.