ColumnLayout QML Type

Identical to GridLayout, but having only one column. More...

Import Statement:	import QtQuick.Layouts 1.12
Inherits:	Item

• List of all members, including inherited members

Properties

• layoutDirection : enumeration
• spacing : real

Detailed Description

It is available as a convenience for developers, as it offers a cleaner API.

Items in a ColumnLayout support these attached properties:

• Layout.minimumWidth
• Layout.minimumHeight
• Layout.preferredWidth
• Layout.preferredHeight
• Layout.maximumWidth
• Layout.maximumHeight
• Layout.fillWidth
• Layout.fillHeight
• Layout.alignment
• Layout.margins
• Layout.leftMargin
• Layout.rightMargin
• Layout.topMargin
• Layout.bottomMargin

ColumnLayout{
    spacing: 2

    Rectangle {
        Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignCenter
        color: "red"
        Layout.preferredWidth: 40
        Layout.preferredHeight: 40
    }

    Rectangle {
        Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignRight
        color: "green"
        Layout.preferredWidth: 40
        Layout.preferredHeight: 70
    }

    Rectangle {
        Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignBottom
        Layout.fillHeight: true
        color: "blue"
        Layout.preferredWidth: 70
        Layout.preferredHeight: 40
    }
}

Read more about attached properties here.

See also RowLayout, GridLayout, and Column.

Property Documentation

layoutDirection : enumeration

This property holds the layout direction of the column layout - it controls whether items are laid out from left ro right or right to left. If Qt.RightToLeft is specified, left-aligned items will be right-aligned and right-aligned items will be left-aligned.

Possible values:

• Qt.LeftToRight (default) - Items are laid out from left to right.
• Qt.RightToLeft - Items are laid out from right to left

This property was introduced in QtQuick.Layouts 1.1.

See also GridLayout::layoutDirection and RowLayout::layoutDirection.

spacing : real

This property holds the spacing between each cell. The default value is 5.