- Qt 5.3
- Qt Quick Layouts
- ColumnLayout QML Type
- Qt 5.3.2 Reference Documentation

# ColumnLayout QML Type

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

Import Statement: | `import QtQuick.Layouts 1.1`

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## 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

    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 QML 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`.