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About Grid Layout

Grid layout is a design technology used in the Applet Layout Editor and supporting applet Web templates that allow you to modify form applet layouts without having to directly modify the underlying applet Web templates. The work space is a grid-based canvas where controls snap to a grid of cells that measure 8 x 8 pixels each. You can configure the layout of form applets using a palette of layout tools, such as resizing, aligning, and centering.

To support the grid layout features in the Applet Layout Editor, applets must be based on one of the grid layout applet Web templates (AppletFormGridLayout or AppletPopupFormGridLayout). Most form applets are based on grid layout Web templates. You can determine if an applet uses a grid-based applet Web template by looking at the Web Template property of the Applet Web Template object type (child object of Applet). For more information, see About Form Applet Templates (Grid-Based).