Text alignment can be changed in text editing mode, but jumps back about drawio HOT 12 CLOSED

Select the cell, not the text, then click on the alignment button.

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Hello,

I am confused about this ....

Select the cell, not the text, then click on the alignment button.

There is no alignment button as far as I can see when you select the cell

Yeah, we're not able to format whilst editing, currently.

Does this mean regardless of your text alignment, it isn't visually shown? When is it shown? It doesn't work if you export it, it goes back to the center.

Is the alignment just a dead option that doesn't work?

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The alignmnt when text is selected is relative to the text block (ie it's ignored for a single line).
The alignment button for selected cells is in the text tab of the format panel.

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You are welcome to submit a PR for it.

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Yeah, we're not able to format whilst editing, currently.

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@davidjgraph not formatting while editing would be also totally fine. The problem is that I can halfway do it nevertheless: The alignment buttons can be clicked, the alignment changes etc.

This would change my "what should happen" alternatively to something like: "Changing a text alignment in edit mode should not be possible. Formatting options which can't be applied (like alignment) should not cause changes, or better, be deactivated in the first place"

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The alignmnt when text is selected is relative to the text block (ie it's ignored for a single line).

Ugh! Why is it ignored for a single line? Alignment should be available for 1 or more lines relative to the text bounding box, not just centre a text box inside of the bounding box and only allow changing the alignment inside of the text box. That is very bizarre and unexpected behaviour.

What other text formatting application does this ever occur? Why would you ever do this? Why? Why? WHY? 😱

Please correct this.

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Ok @davidjgraph, what would the steps be to do that? I know JS, but I don't know how I would pull it down to my machine, modify it and test it there.

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Oh, I see why this is done this way.

The Position states where the text is located relative to the bounding box. The image here shows it as left, so it is left of the bounding box. Center, means centre relative to the bounding box. In all cases though, the width of the bounding box is respected, regardless of where it is located relative to the bounding box.

I've never seen anything like this before. This would require a flag use the bounding box instead of the Position so as not to break older files. Or perhaps another Position, such as Bounding Box, to just use the bounding box.

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Why is this closed? In Microsoft Visio, I can set the text alignment to be top and left-justified for a single line, inside the shape - but not with draw.io - a major show-stopper when using nested shapes.

If I select "top-left" position in the "text" tab, the text goes outside of the shape! Not what I want - I want like in Visio, that it goes to the top-left corner of the shape, still inside, with a small amount of margin.

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This issue should be fixed.

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Funny I'm just running into this now. Maybe they fixed something but from the above screenshot it looks like you could always do this in the text formatting tab with the shape selected. It's not position, it's the button above that...

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