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How to Expand Container and Children At Once

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Hi.

If I have a container with children, I notice I can drag the right edge to enlarge the container (make it longer in time).     However, the children are not also enlarged, leaving them to be dragged one-by-one after if the intent was to increase the span for everything.

Is there any way to enlarge a container and it's children all at once?  (e.g. dragging with a modifier key?)


Wed, 2024-06-12 - 16:45 Permalink

No. 

We would need a CSS-like layout engine like a web browser if that is supposed to make sense. Some children may be right-aligned, some intended to scale proportionally with the parent, some may be positioned at a fixed position, some at a position proportional to parent length, etc.

While that would be nice, setting up a layout is more work than the occasional manual positioning.