Vertical alignment in text form

Been trying set vertical alignment so that text will align with the top of the form box, and having a frustrating result. It will only align if the box is one line only.
A multi-line box will not expand vertically to accomodate long text; an expanded (vertically) box will result in text beginning below top alignment. Anyone working on a fix for this? It seems to be a new problem, as I have used this feature with in the past with old versions of Acrobat.

If I understand your issue correctly, you can achieve this by playing witht the Left and Right values under Layout tab of the object properties.
Let me know if this is not what youare looking for..
Thanks
Srini

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>
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>
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I really do not think there is a reason to do this but if the OP has a good reason or wants to tell us why they need this we might be abe tooffer them a better way.
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I have a problem. I've browsed through existing solutions and
haven't found anything that works for me.
I am working on a site that has lots of nested tables. The
navigation bar and some other text are in a column on the left (in
a nested table) and the page content is in a table on the right (in
a nested table). However, the image and text in the left column
continue to migrate down whenever I add too much content in the
right column.
This happens only on page where the height of the content in
the right column exceeds the height of the content in the left.
ALL properties for all tables have the vertical alignment set
to "top" not to "default". Any help would be greatly appreciated. I
am attaching the code for my style.css file.
The page in question is located at
http://www.ssc.coop/science/news.html.
Thank you in advance ... Amy
Text

Yes. I stand corrected. Thanks Murray.
valign="top" is the correct HTML syntax. valign:top is some
invalid hybrid
of HTML & CSS. Regardless, it can't/won't/doesn't work.
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>>> valign: top;
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>> This is invalid CSS. It is HTML. Yu can't use HTML
code in CSS. Change it
>> to vertical-align: top;
>>
>> Walt
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>> "AGrover" <[email protected]> wrote
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>>>I have a problem. I've browsed through existing
solutions and haven't
>>>found
>>> anything that works for me.
>>>
>>> I am working on a site that has lots of nested
tables. The navigation
>>> bar and
>>> some other text are in a column on the left (in
a nested table) and the
>>> page
>>> content is in a table on the right (in a nested
table). However, the
>>> image and
>>> text in the left column continue to migrate down
whenever I add too much
>>> content in the right column.
>>>
>>> This happens only on page where the height of
the content in the right
>>> column
>>> exceeds the height of the content in the left.
>>>
>>> ALL properties for all tables have the vertical
alignment set to "top"
>>> not to
>>> "default". Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I am attaching the
>>> code for
>>> my style.css file.
>>>
>>> The page in question is located at
>>>
http://www.ssc.coop/science/news.html.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance ... Amy
>>>
>>>
Text
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>> .a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}
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Next
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If you say it can`t be done then i`ll try it
No need to imitate a monospaced font. If ownerdrawing, you can just draw the parts of each string in regular columns.
thanks for any help

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I am new to Pages, and I've run across a problem that is really aggravating because it should not be rocket science... but it seems to be, at least for me.
I need to center the text on the page so there is equal white space above and below it.
In Word, you select File --> Page Setup --> Layout --> Vertical Alignment and choose "Center." Done.
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Note that the Vertical Alignment does not apply to the Text Layer of a Word Processing document, just to the text in objects that accept text within the shape. For your application you would probably want to add a text box, centered on your page, to hold the text that you want to center.
Regards,
Jerry
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