17.18.100 ST_VAnchor

This simple type specifies the vertical position to which the parent object has been anchored in the document. This anchor position shall be used as the base location to determine the final vertical position of the object in the document.

[Example: Consider a text frame which should be positioned one inch to the right of its column in a left-to-right document. This text frame would be specified using the following WordprocessingML:

<w:pPr>
  <w:framePr … w:y="1440" w:vAnchor="page" />
</w:pPr>

These frame vertical anchor properties specify that they are relative to the anchor paragraph’s page. end example]

This simple type’s contents are a restriction of the W3C XML Schema string datatype.

This simple type is restricted to the values

listed in the following table:

Enumeration Value

Description

Specifies that the parent object shall be vertically anchored to the text margins.

This shall be used to specify that any vertical positioning values shall be calculated with respect to the location of the text margin.

Specifies that the parent object shall be vertically anchored to the page edge.

This shall be used to specify that any vertical positioning values shall be calculated with respect to the location of the edge of the page.

Specifies that the parent object shall be vertically anchored to the text extents.

This shall be used to specify that any vertical positioning values shall be calculated with respect to the location of the top edge of the text in the anchor paragraph.

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this simple type’s content model (ST_VAnchor) is located in A.1. end note]