idea Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title" in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

RyanBohan — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:55:21 GMT

Add the ability to a Vertical Center a Rectangle text element in a layout.

Currently the Vertical alignment is disabled (BUG-000121263), it seems the eyeballing the Offset Y is currently the only option to try and Vertically Center text.

My goal is recreating the following layout. Having the Vertical alignment would allow a second line to added in seconds, instead of trying to readjust the Offset Y. Border and background added to Rectangle text element

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

wayfaringrob — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:34:08 GMT

Thank you for posting. I am astounded that the market leader in desktop GIS does not provide a simple way to align text in a box. It results in a lot of eyeballing in layouts which can look very unprofessional and I often end up using another application to do things properly.

And this closed idea from 2011 requested the same thing: Layout Text Enhancements - Esri Community

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

MichaelDavis3 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:37:07 GMT

Would also love to see ESRI address this. We have plenty of use-cases where we need dynamic text in map series to be aligned to the bottom of a text frame. The fact that we can't do this in Pro in version 3.1 is sort of baffling.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

AlyssavD — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:56:37 GMT

Surprising this is still an issue in 2024. Pretty ridiculous that you can't vertically center text in a rectangle. That is a pretty basic design request.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title" - Status changed to: Under Consideration

AubriOtis — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:41:52 GMT

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

BrianShepard — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:48:02 GMT

Mirroring @AlyssavD's comment, I'm happy to see that addressing this "bug" is now Under Consideration after 6 years. This would be incredibly helpful to address and I hope it moves forward.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

ErikBreedon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:55:00 GMT

I vote kudos/yes/please for this enhancement. I would really like to see a vertical alignment setting allowed in rectangle text.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

MProctorBrown — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:53:21 GMT

Would be really nice to have basic functionality like this fixed.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

MathewBlanc — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 01:47:09 GMT

Yet another comment calling for this to be added. The whole layout workflow is substandard compared to every other design software on the market, and this issue is just one among many.

But at least do this simple thing. The buttons and workflow are all there, you just have to fix whatever logic is preventing us from using it.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

GregoryLund2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:50:13 GMT

Agreed with everyone above, posting here to request 2004 functionality for an issue that exists in 2025. 🙂 🤣

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

DanialBroderick_RFF — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:12:17 GMT

@AubriOtis is there a timeline for when this will be implemented?

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

JesseClous — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:11:49 GMT

This issue has been so frustrating. Adding Y offsets, or manually adjusting the position of the rectangle text leads to text in layouts not automatically centered. This is problematic when adding text to layouts that have varying lines of text that need to be vertically centered in a fixed position. When using Python to populate an elements such as titles in multiple layouts, manual workarounds to not work. Even when manual workarounds make the appearance of centered text it is often not perfectly centered. Very hard to look at figures created that are not perfect, it looks unprofessional. This is further complicated by the text buffers that are built into the rectangle text elements and not adjustable like in ArcMap.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-can-i-remove-the-spacing-padding-around-a/m-p/1614854#M95786

WIth these two factors, text is impossible to exactly and automatically align with other layout elements. We make hundreds of figures to to support environmental reporting and seeing these imperfections make me cringe. This was not an issue in arcmap. I hope that we can unlock these capabilities in the next patch or release!

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

MaxGummer — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:14:38 GMT

Just here to join the chorus. Wild that this is still an issue.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

GISDataTasPorts — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:17:20 GMT

This bug is now listed as "Non Reproducible". That's probably because they are trying it with 'Straight Text' (where it works correctly) not for 'Rectangle Text' where it does't work at all.

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

wayfaringrob — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:05:00 GMT

🤦🏼‍:male_sign:

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

JosephRigley — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:14:53 GMT

no rect txt vertical alignment in 2026. Over three years riding the ESRI failtrain - back to ArcMap for this one

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

GregoryLund2 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:42:15 GMT

Agreed @GISDataTasPorts , @wayfaringrob

and @JosephRigley ... that is why my students use other software to create layouts.

And, again, why can't we comment, upvote or even like other comments to show support? GISDataTasPorts is likely 100% correct!

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

Emily_Jenkins — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:57:33 GMT

Still running into this bug fyi

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

ItayPorat — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:16:59 GMT

Been running into this issue again and again. Very basic feature that would make creating layouts faster and easier

Re: Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

JosephRigley — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:01:54 GMT

@GregoryLund2 I had a good laugh today imagining AI agents trying to work through the Pro glitchfest, that's going to be fun, sorta