Panel

Description

Use Panel to put an empty panel on a form. Panels have properties for providing a beveled border around the control, as well as methods to help manage the placement of child controls embedded in the panel.

Component properties

Property	Description
BgColor	Specifies the background color of the control.
Name	Specifies the name of the component.
Left	Specifies the horizontal coordinate of the left edge of a component relative to its parent.
Top	Specifies the Y coordinate of the upper-left corner of a control, relative to its parent or containing control in pixels.
Width	Specifies the horizontal size of the control in pixels.
Height	Specifies the vertical size of the control in pixels.
TabOrder	Indicates the position of the control in its parent's tab order.
Visible	Specifies whether the component appears onscreen.
Anchors	Specifies how the control is anchored to its parent. More info.

Additional properties

Property	Description
AutoSize	Specifies whether the control sizes itself automatically to accommodate its contents.
BiDiMode	Specifies the bi-directional mode for the component.
BevelInner	Specifies the cut of the inner bevel.
BevelKind	Specifies the control's bevel style.
BevelOuter	Specifies the cut of the outer bevel.
BevelWidth	Determines the width, in pixels, of both the inner and outer bevels of a panel.
BorderStyle	Determines whether the edit component has a single line border around the client area.
BorderWidth	Specifies the distance, in pixels, between the outer and inner bevels.
Caption	Specifies a text string that identifies the control to the user.
Constraints	Specifies the size constraints for the component. It makes sense when using the Anchors property.
Cursor	Specifies the image used to represent the mouse pointer when it passes into the region covered by the component.
Enabled	Controls whether the component responds to mouse and keyboard events.
Font → Color	Specifies the font color to use when displaying the text.
Font → Name	Identifies the typeface of the font.
Font → Size	Specifies the height of the font in points.
Font → Style	Determines whether the font is normal, italic, underlined, bold, and so on.
Hint	Hint contains the text string that appears when the user moves the mouse over the component. The hint will be shown if the ShowHint property = True
ShowCaption	Specifies whether to display the caption of the panel control.
ShowHint	Determines whether the control displays a Help Hint when the mouse pointer rests momentarily on the component. See also property Hint
VerticalAlignment	Sets the vertical position of the caption.