topic Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Vertical Alignment greyed out

GISAdministrator8 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:22:45 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to setup a map series and some of the longer map titles require two lines of space instead of one, this leaves titles that require only one line to appear too high instead of centered in the box (see image attached).

This would be fixed if I could change the vertical alignment but this is greyed out for me.

Any help would be appreciated

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

Eugene_Adkins — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:38:37 GMT

From the "Element" tab, try adjusting the position for the text from its current position to the middle position. Just an idea.

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

GISAdministrator8 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:26:16 GMT

Thankyou for the suggestion but this has no effect on the text box:

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

Eugene_Adkins — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:07:03 GMT

It may not be ideal but I believe if you remove your text box and then add a callout box to your text (which can be formatted like your text box), the callout box will automatically adjust to the text. This is how I deal with the issue.

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

GISAdministrator8 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:46:19 GMT

Reformatting it to a callout doesn't change the positioning of the text.

I've tried a few things and vertical alignment is available on Straight Text but not on Rectangle Text.

The problem with straight text is that it is in only one line where the font size scales depending on the line length, i also cannot contain it within the designated are/box for the title:

Rectangle text works fine for 2 lines of text as above but when changing to a shorter tile (changing map series) that only requires 1 line the text is stuck to the ceiling:

Perhaps this is too specific to just the way I format the Map title and the issue is purely aesthetic so I will leave it as it is.

Maybe having vertical alignment available in rectangle text can be implemented in future versions, but I wanted to reach out and see if other people encountered this and if they had an easy fix or I was missing something obvious.

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

TimothyFratta — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:12:17 GMT

I'm running into the same issue and I'm scratching my head on how is still not resolved (assuming it's not???)

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

BrianShepard — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:21:04 GMT

I'm also confused as to why vertical alignment isn't available for rectangle text elements. Horizontal alignment is. As a template layout, individual projects may have variable length for source/credit text. I'd like to have the text aligned to the bottom of the element so that additional lines will expand up (into white space) rather than down into my disclaimer. Is there another text element that allows for vertical alignment of text?

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

GabrielScarcella — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:51:39 GMT

I'm also facing the same problem, the vertical alignment options (in text properties) are greyed out.
I tried switching off Maplex, but that didn't work.
It's unclear to me why this does not work from text properties, and how it can be set from the label engine.

Does anybody know what causes the label positioning to be greyed out?

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

sbburton — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:11:32 GMT

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/vertical-center-for-a-rectangle-text-element-in-a/idi-p/1244428

Looks like it's a known bug.

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

BrianShepard — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:05:32 GMT

Thanks for finding that. Looks like after 6 years, it's "Under Consideration" to fix.

Re: Vertical Alignment greyed out

GregoryLund2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:50:53 GMT

6 Months later.... 😭