Dynamic Layout Properties — Presentation tab

Click the Gear icon in the dynamic layout header to display the properties panel, and then select the Presentation tab.

Field Description
Layout mode Optimize layout, markup, and CSS with new releases – Recommended option. Select optimize layout to use flexbox-based layout in your form. A flexbox layout alters the width, height, and order of its contents to best fill the available space. The child layouts contained within this type of layout can be laid out in vertically or horizontally. You can expand them to fill the available space or shrink to avoid overflowing the parent layout. You can also manipulate horizontal and vertical alignment of the child layouts. If you need to build layouts in two dimensions, use nesting layouts (horizontal inside vertical or vertical inside horizontal). Select this check box to allow automatic updates to new markup, where possible, for every release.

Legacy code – Select legacy code to use float-based layout in your form. This type of layout uses the inline block when setting several layouts side-by-side inline. The inline block is compatible with pre-flexbox generation of dynamic layouts. Converting this layout to the optimized layout mode might require additional changes if you use custom CSS for styling the dynamic layout. Select this check box to maintain backward compatibility.
Float The float option enables a dynamic layout to float to the far right or far left of the container in which the dynamic layout is hosted.

Float dynamic layouts if you want two dynamic layouts to display on the same line, for example, in a header bar. For more information on how to float dynamic layouts, see Using dynamic layouts to create responsive user interfaces.

If you select to float the dynamic layout, you can:
Set layout width to auto Ensures that width settings permit the layout to float. This check box is enabled by default if you select to float the dynamic layout.

Clear this check box only if the Layout width for the specified dynamic layout format in the skin is less than 100%.
Display advanced presentation options  
Alignment When the parent layout mode is flexbox, the alignment sets the align-items CSS attribute. You have the following alignment options:
  • Auto : Items are packed toward the start of the line. Selecting this option has the same effect as align-left.
  • Right (flex-end) : Items are packed toward the end of the line. Selecting this option has the same effect as align-right.
Spacing These options enable you to remove the space set among items in the dynamic layout format in the skin.

The default is None, indicating no override — spacing settings are determined by the skin.

You may want to override the spacing set in the skin in certain cases. For example, you might want remove spacing from the first item in your dynamic layout, in order to have it display directly below the header, while retaining the 20 pixel spacing among the other items in the dynamic layout, as set in the skin. To do this, remove Top spacing for the First item.

Top - Select to remove spacing for the First item or All items.

Left - Select to remove spacing for the First item or All items.

Right - Select to remove spacing for the Last item or All items.

Bottom - Select to remove spacing for the Last item or All items.