Use the HorizontalAlignment property of the column's Style object to control the horizontal placement of cell text within a column. The allowable values for this property are as follows:

• General
• Near
• Center
• Far
• Justify

The setting General, which is the default for data cells, indicates that the alignment should be based upon the underlying data type. For example, strings are left-aligned, while numbers are right-aligned.

Use the VerticalAlignment member of the Style object to control the vertical placement of text within the cells of a list, split, or column. The allowable values for this property are as follows:

• Top
• Center
• Bottom

For data cells, the default value is Top. For static list elements such as caption bars, column headers, and column footers, the default value is Center. See the section Named Style Defaults to learn how the default values are derived.

The following grid depicts all possible combinations of the HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment properties:

The General and Justify settings have been omitted because the General setting aligns text as Near and numeric values as Far. The Justify setting aligns text with respect to the cells boundries, but in this case appears exactly like the Near setting.

The HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment properties are tightly integrated with the concept of styles. For more information, see How to Use Styles.