SpanFromLeft

SpanFromLeft

is a symbol that can appear at a particular position in a Grid or related construct to indicate that the corresponding position is occupied by a spanning element that appears to its left.

Details

  • If SpanFromLeft appears at several successive positions in a row, it indicates spanning across all these positions.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (4)

Make the element 4 span the column to its right:

Make it span two columns:

Span across the remaining width of the grid:

Spanning in a GraphicsGrid:

Scope  (3)

Spanned elements inherit their styles:

Graphics will default to filling the available space:

An explicit ImageSize setting will prevent this behavior:

Possible Issues  (2)

Spanning regions must be rectangular in shape:

Use SpanFromBoth when spanning across both columns and rows:

Wolfram Research (2007), SpanFromLeft, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpanFromLeft.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2007), SpanFromLeft, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpanFromLeft.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2007. "SpanFromLeft." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpanFromLeft.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2007). SpanFromLeft. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpanFromLeft.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_spanfromleft, author="Wolfram Research", title="{SpanFromLeft}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpanFromLeft.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_spanfromleft, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={SpanFromLeft}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpanFromLeft.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-December-2024 ]}