I have an Access 2010 report that I've setup as tabular and set 2 columns with Can Grow and Can Shrink to Yes but instead of expanding the width it's instead wrapping the text. Is it possible to have it expand the width of the column instead of wrapping the text and expanding it's height?
I don't think Can Grow/Can Shrink are what you expect them to be. These properties only concern fitting controls to a page when printing. I suspect you want to edit the Horizontal Anchor property. You can set this to Left, Right, or Both.
What this will do is, say when set to Left, is bind the control to the left hand side of the Form/Report while leaving width constant.
When Right is set the control will move with the right side of the form/report and stay the same width.
When Both is set the control's width will change to maintain the same distance of the left side of the control to the left side of the form/report and same for the right side.
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I've got a two-column layout, and in one row the left column contains a resizeable textarea. When the textarea is stretched to the right, it overflows into the right column. I would like the right column to flow under the left column in such a case (like what happens when the browser window is narrowed). Any ideas how to style this correctly?
It's my understanding that flexbox containers and their child items flex fully along only one axis, depending on the value of the flex-direction property, row or column. With a "row" container, you can stretch and shrink the width of the container and the individual boxes it contains, but the content in those boxes does not grow or shrink to match. On the other hand, resizing a window vertically does cause content to resize accordingly. (I think the situation is vice versa with "column" containers, though I haven't tried them alone.)
So my questions:
Do I have that right? I've read through many nice blog posts on flexboxes, but none covered this characteristic explicitly as a main 'feature.'
Is there a flexbox-only workaround, some arrangement of rows-inside-columns or the other way around, maybe with specific properties set special ways?
I tried putting a columnar container inside a flexbox belonging to a row container, and then putting text into that, but I saw no change in resizing behavior--the text still resizes only when the window/viewbox is resized vertically, not horizontally. See this codepen.
(About the example: first, I apologize for extraneous properties or properties set to random-ish values, but I was trying anything and everything. I tried to pare them back without messing up the demo but I'm sure there's much to improve. The svg logo on the left is just in a top-level flexbox in the main container for that row--it behaves as expected, shrinking/growing only with vertical window resizes. I put a hidden logo in a third box on the right so with equal-width boxes on either side, the text between them comes out centered in the viewbox, if you don't use shrink too much side to side. Maybe there's a less kludgy way with flexbox to a row with centered text and a logo on the left.)
I have a subreport that contains a small tablix at the bottom of the page. There is nothing above it, and it is inside of a rectangle that stretches to the top of the page.
As I add data, the tablix grows vertically downward, making two pages, but not using the whitespace above it.
How can I have the tablix always near the bottom of the page, and if it hits the bottom of the report, to start growing up?
I don't think you can.
Report items such as tablixes have two relevant properties:
Height;
Top (e.g. Position).
Only the first one can be dynamic. The latter can't be part of an expression. There also is not an option to set a fixed bottom (like you could do in CSS).
When dropping any kind of image into a content container it places it a couple centimeters away from the left side of said container. It is acting as if there is some sort of padding on the inside of the container.
If I set the padding-top property to 0 it will move the image exactly to the top of the container, however the same is not true for the padding-left property? Why is this and how can I get around it to fully utilize the side of my container?
Thanks in advance.
Basically I want to layout a toolbar with some icons on the left and right and a variable sized text field in the middle. I want the text field to take up the remaining space in the middle. The side sections widths are not known ahead of time, they are determined by the number of visible buttons on each side.
The problem is similar to http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_4.html except he side column widths can not be hardcoded.
Is it possible to do this purely in CSS?
It sounds like you need display:table-cell
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_display.asp
Container can be display:table-row and the children can be display:table-cell. I believe that should work for you.
To answer my own question, if you're using a browser that supports the flexible box layout model, setting the left and right DIVs to "-webkit-box-flex: 0;" and the center DIV to "-webkit-box-flex: 1;" does exactly what I want. The container should have "display: -webkit-box;"