Class Column

A column.

Available for Google Chat apps and Google Workspace Add-ons.

const columnWidget = CardService.newTextParagraph();
const column = CardService.newColumn()
    .setHorizontalSizeStyle(CardService.HorizontalSizeStyle.FILL_AVAILABLE_SPACE)
    .setHorizontalAlignment(CardService.HorizontalAlignment.CENTER)
    .setVerticalAlignment(CardService.VerticalAlignment.CENTER)
    .addWidget(columnWidget);

Methods

Method	Return type	Brief description
`addWidget(widget)`	`Column`	Adds a widget to the column.
`setHorizontalAlignment(horizontalAlignment)`	`Column`	Sets the `HorizontalAlignment` of the `Column`.
`setHorizontalSizeStyle(horizontalSizeStyle)`	`Column`	Sets the `HorizontalSizeStyle` of the Column.
`setVerticalAlignment(verticalAlignment)`	`Column`	Sets the `VerticalAlignment` of the `Column`.

Detailed documentation

`addWidget(widget)`

Adds a widget to the column.

Widgets are displayed in the order they are added. You can add the following widgets to a column:

const column = CardService.newColumn()
    .addWidget(CardService.newTextParagraph()
       .setText('This is a text paragraph widget'));

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`widget`	`Widget`	The widget to add to the column.

Return

Column — This object, for chaining.

`setHorizontalAlignment(horizontalAlignment)`

Sets the HorizontalAlignment of the Column. Optional.

const column = CardService.newColumn()
    .setHorizontalAlignment(CardService.HorizontalAlignment.CENTER);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`horizontalAlignment`	`HorizontalAlignment`	The horizontal alignment of the column.

Return

Column — This object, for chaining.

`setHorizontalSizeStyle(horizontalSizeStyle)`

Sets the HorizontalSizeStyle of the Column. Optional.

const column = CardService.newColumn()
    .setHorizontalSizeStyle(CardService.HorizontalSizeStyle.FILL_AVAILABLE_SPACE);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`horizontalSizeStyle`	`HorizontalSizeStyle`	The horizontal size of the column.

Return

Column — This object, for chaining.

`setVerticalAlignment(verticalAlignment)`

Sets the VerticalAlignment of the Column. Optional.

const column = CardService.newColumn()
    .setVerticalAlignment(CardService.VerticalAlignment.CENTER);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`verticalAlignment`	`VerticalAlignment`	The vertical alignment of the column.

Return

Column — This object, for chaining.