Column

A column is a vertical container that allows you to stack components.

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Set the Size of a Column

For more information on sizing in your app, please see our introduction here​

Property

Description

Height

  • Fill container - The column fills the entire screen vertically

  • Fit contents - The column’s height changes to fit the components it contains

  • Relative size - The column fills the specified percentage of the screen

  • Absolute size - Sizes the column to a specified number of pixels

Width

  • Fill container - The column fills the entire screen horizontally

  • Fit contents - The column’s width changes to fit the components it contains

  • Relative size - The column fills the specified percentage of the screen

  • Absolute - Sizes the column to a specified number of pixels

Space the elements vertically

The Vertical Alignment property allows you to space elements in a Column vertically

Space the elements horizontally

The Horizontal Alignment property allows you to space elements in a Column horizontally

Add a background color or picture

Property

Description

Background Color

Default (none). Select any color using the color picker, RGBA or HEX value

Background Picture

You can upload a background image to your app or reference an image url e.g.beaver-yellow.png

Background Picture Resize Mode

This determines how to resize the image when the frame doesn't match the raw image dimensions.

  • Cover: Fills the entire screen without changing the height and width ratio of the image

  • Contain: The entire image will be scaled down to fit inside the screen, without changing the height and width ratio of the image

  • Stretch: The image's height will change to fill the screen length-wise

  • Repeat: Repeat the image to cover the screen. The image's height and width ratio

    will not change

  • Center: Positions the image in the middle of the frame

Enable scrolling

Property

Description

Scrollable

Default (false). Indicates whether the column is scrollable. For scrollable to work, you must also set your screen height to fit contents and the components in your column must have heights set in absolute pixels

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