Working with Containers

Containers are areas on your screen that can hold controls (such as fields, labels, etc.) or other container(s). Containers are the preferred way to structure elements inside your page body.

You already saw the ROWAREA container in the "Hello World!" example.

The information provided in this part is organized under the following headings:

Positioning of Controls inside a Container
Defining the Width of Controls inside a Container
Vertical Sizing of Containers and Controls
Overview of Different Containers
ROWAREA and COLAREA
ROWAREAWITHHEADER
ROWTABAREA and COLTABAREA
ROWTABLE0 and COLTABLE0
COLDYNAVIS and ROWDYNAVIS
ROWDIV and INNERDIV
ROWSCROLLAREA
HSPLIT and VSPLIT
HLINE and VLINE
Performance Optimization with Containers