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Format.padding ViewHelper <f:format.padding>
Formats a string using PHPs str_ function.
See https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.
Examples
Defaults
<f:format.padding padLength="10">TYPO3</f:format.padding>
Output:
TYPO3
TYPO3
Specify padding string
<f:format.padding padLength="10" padString="-=">TYPO3</f:format.padding>
TYPO3-=-=-
Specify padding type
<f:format.padding padLength="10" padString="-" padType="both">TYPO3</f:format.padding>
--TYPO3---
Source code
Go to the source code of this ViewHelper: PaddingViewHelper.php (GitHub).
Arguments
The following arguments are available for <f::
value
-
- Type
- string
String to format
padLength
-
- Type
- mixed
- Required
true
Length of the resulting string. If the value of pad_length is negative or less than the length of the input string, no padding takes place.
padString
-
- Type
- string
- Default
' '
The padding string
padType
-
- Type
- string
- Default
'right'
Append the padding at this site (Possible values: right,left,both. Default: right)