Vertically aligning tabs within a TabBar control in Flex

In a previous example, “Horizontally aligning tabs within a TabBar control in Flex”, we saw how you could horizontally align tabs in a TabBar control by setting the horizontalAlign style.

The following example shows how you can align tabs vertically within a Flex TabBar control by setting the verticalAlign style.

Full code after the jump.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/03/20/vertically-aligning-tabs-within-a-tabbar-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Style>
        TabBar {
            tabStyleName: myCustomTabStyleName;
            selectedTabTextStyleName: myCustomSelectedTabTextStyleName;
        }

        .myCustomTabStyleName {
            fillColors: haloBlue, haloGreen;
            fillAlphas: 1.0, 1.0;
        }

        .myCustomSelectedTabTextStyleName {
            color: white;
        }
    </mx:Style>

    <mx:Array id="arr">
        <mx:Object label="Button" />
        <mx:Object label="ButtonBar" />
        <mx:Object label="ColorPicker" />
        <mx:Object label="ComboBox" />
    </mx:Array>

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="verticalAlign:">
                <mx:ComboBox id="comboBox">
                    <mx:dataProvider>
                        <mx:Array>
                            <mx:Object label="top" />
                            <mx:Object label="middle" />
                            <mx:Object label="bottom" />
                        </mx:Array>
                    </mx:dataProvider>
                </mx:ComboBox>
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <mx:Box backgroundColor="black">
        <mx:TabBar id="tabBar"
                dataProvider="{arr}"
                height="200"
                tabWidth="100"
                tabHeight="40"
                verticalAlign="{comboBox.selectedItem.label}"
                direction="vertical" />
    </mx:Box>

</mx:Application>