NOTE

Syncfusion recommends using Blazor Diagram Component which provides better performance than this diagram control. Blazor Diagram Component will be actively developed in the future.

Positioning in Blazor Diagram Component

15 Dec 202212 minutes to read

Diagram allows you to customize the position and appearance of the port efficiently. Port can be aligned relative to the node boundaries. It has Margin, Offset, Horizontal, and Vertical alignment settings. It is quite tricky when all four alignments are used together but gives more control over alignments properties of the DiagramPort class. Ports of a node can be positioned using the following properties of DiagramPort.

• Offset
• HorizontalAlignment
• VerticalAlignment
• Margin

Offset

The Offset property is used to align the Ports based on fractions. 0 represents top/left corner, 1 represents bottom/right corner, and 0.5 represents half of width/height.

@using Syncfusion.Blazor.Diagrams
@using System.Collections.ObjectModel

<SfDiagram Height="600px" Nodes="@NodeCollection">
</SfDiagram>
@code{
    public ObservableCollection<DiagramNode> NodeCollection = new ObservableCollection<DiagramNode>() { };
    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        // A node is created and stored in nodes collection.
        DiagramNode node1 = new DiagramNode()
        {
            // Position of the node
            OffsetX = 250,
            OffsetY = 250,
            // Size of the node
            Width = 100,
            Height = 100,
            Style = new NodeShapeStyle() { Fill = "#6BA5D7", StrokeColor = "white" },
            // Initialize port collection
            Ports = new ObservableCollection<DiagramPort>()
            {
                new DiagramPort()
                {
                    Id = "port1",
                    Offset = new NodePortOffset() { X = 0, Y = 0.5 },
                    Visibility = PortVisibility.Visible,
                    //Set the style for the port
                    Style= new PortShapeStyle(){ Fill="gray", StrokeColor="black"},
                    // Sets the shape of the port as Square
                    Width= 12,
                    Height=12,
                    Shape= PortShapes.Square,
                }
            },
        };
        NodeCollection.Add(node1);
    }
}

The following code shows the relationship between the shape port position and path port offset (fraction values).

Offset values	Output
(0,0)
(0,0.5)
(0,1)
(0.5,0)
(0.5,0.5)
(0.5,1)
(1,0)
(1,0.5)
(1,1)

NOTE

Type of the offset property for node’s shape port is NodePortOffset.

Horizontal and vertical alignment

The HorizontalAlignment property of the port is used to set how the port is horizontally aligned at the port position determined from the fraction values. The VerticalAlignment property is used to set how the port is vertically aligned at the port position.

The following table shows all the possible alignments visually with offset (0, 0).

Horizontal Alignment	Vertical Alignment	Output with Offset(0,0)
Left	Top
Center	Top
Right	Top
Left	Center
Center	Center
Right	Center
Left	Bottom
Center	Bottom
Right	Bottom

The following code explains how to align ports.

@using Syncfusion.Blazor.Diagrams
@using System.Collections.ObjectModel

<SfDiagram Height="600px" Nodes="@NodeCollection">
</SfDiagram>
@code{

    public ObservableCollection<DiagramNode> NodeCollection = new ObservableCollection<DiagramNode>() { };

    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        // A node is created and stored in nodes array.
        DiagramNode node1 = new DiagramNode()
        {
            // Position of the node
            OffsetX = 250,
            OffsetY = 250,
            // Size of the node
            Width = 100,
            Height = 100,
            Style = new NodeShapeStyle() { Fill = "#6BA5D7", StrokeColor = "white" },
            // Initialize port collection
            Ports = new ObservableCollection<DiagramPort>()
            {
                new DiagramPort()
                {
                    Id = "port1",
                    Offset = new NodePortOffset() { X = 0, Y = 0 },
                    Visibility = PortVisibility.Visible,
                    //Set the style for the port
                    Style= new PortShapeStyle(){ Fill="gray", StrokeColor="black"},
                    // Sets the shape of the port as Square
                    Width= 12,
                    Height=12,
                    Shape= PortShapes.Square,
                    HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left,
                    VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Top
                }
            },
        };
        NodeCollection.Add(node1);
    }
}

NOTE

• The value of the HorizontalAlignment is Center by default.
  
  * The value of the VerticalAlignment is Center by default.
  
  * Alignment positioned based on the offset value.

Margin

Margin is an absolute value used to add some blank space to any one of its four sides. The ports can be displaced with the margin property. The following code example explains how to align an port based on its Offset, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, and Margin values.

@using Syncfusion.Blazor.Diagrams
@using System.Collections.ObjectModel

<SfDiagram Height="600px" Nodes="@NodeCollection">
</SfDiagram>
@code{

    public ObservableCollection<DiagramNode> NodeCollection = new ObservableCollection<DiagramNode>() { };
    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        // A node is created and stored in nodes array.
        DiagramNode node1 = new DiagramNode()
        {
            // Position of the node
            OffsetX = 250,
            OffsetY = 250,
            // Size of the node
            Width = 100,
            Height = 100,
            Style = new NodeShapeStyle() { Fill = "#6BA5D7", StrokeColor = "white" },
            // Initialize port collection
            Ports = new ObservableCollection<DiagramPort>()
            {
                new DiagramPort()
                {
                    Id = "port1",
                    Offset = new NodePortOffset() { X = 0.5, Y = 1 },
                    Visibility = PortVisibility.Visible,
                    //Set the style for the port
                    Style= new PortShapeStyle(){ Fill="gray", StrokeColor="black"},
                    // Sets the shape of the port as Circle
                    Width= 12,
                    Height=12,
                    Shape= PortShapes.Square,
                    HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left,
                    VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Top,
                    Margin=new PortMargin(){Top=10}
                }
            },
        };
        NodeCollection.Add(node1);
    }
}

See also

• How to create a node

• How to customize the ports

• How to interact the ports