Text Alignment in Single Line Edit Controls

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) versions 3.1
• Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) included with:

      - Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.5 and 3.51
      - Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.0
  

Text in single line edit controls cannot be centered or right-aligned (right-justified). Text in single line edit controls is left-aligned (left- justified) by default. This is by product design, and therefore specifying the ES_RIGHT or ES_CENTER style while creating the single line edit control does not have any effect on the text alignment.

Windows does not allow text to be centered or right-aligned in a single line edit control. However, an easy way to work around this problem is to create a multiline edit control that is the same size as a single line edit control.

Text in a multiline edit control can be centered or right/left aligned. Note that the multiline edit control should be created without the WS_VSCROLL or ES_AUTOVSCROLL style.

While single line edit controls may support text alignment in a future release of Windows, Windows 3.x applications must use multiline edit controls to achieve the same effect.