17.6.23 vAlign

This element specifies the vertical alignment for text on pages in the current section, relative to the top and bottom margins in the main document story on each page.

[Example: Consider a section used as a title page on which text must be vertically centered. In order to center the text vertically on the page, the following WordprocessingML is used:

<w:sectPr>
  …
  <w:vAlign w:val="center" />
</w:sectPr>

The vAlign value of center specifies that text must be laid out in the center of the top and bottom text margins for all pages in this section. end example]

Attributes

val (Vertical Alignment Setting)

Specifies the vertical alignment for text between the top and bottom margins of the parent container (page or table cell).

[Example: Consider a region where the text must be vertically centered in the parent element. This would require a val value of center, in order to specify that all justification vertically must be centered relative to the parent. For a section, this setting would be specified as follows:

  <w:vAlign w:val="center" />

The val attribute of center specifies that the content is centered relative to its container

(in this case, the page). end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_VerticalJc simple type (17.18.101).

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