
An object of the Section class represents a section of a document. Sections are numbered from the beginning to the end of the document beginning with 1. A document has at least one section. A section is a part of the document that specifies the page size, the page margins and the headers and footers. A section object can be obtained from the section collection available through the TextControl.Sections property.
Introduced: 14.0.
[C#]
public class Section
[Visual Basic]
Public Class Section
| Property | Description | |
| Format | Gets or sets the section's formatting attributes. | |
| HeadersAndFooters | Gets a collection of all headers and footers of the section. | |
| Length | Gets the number of characters in the section. | |
| Number | Gets the section's number. | |
| Start | Gets the number (one-based) of the first character in the section. |
| Method | Description | |
| Select | Selects the section. |
The following example shows how to use the SectionClass to insert a new section with a different header and page orientation than the previous one:
[C#]
textControl1.HeadersAndFooters.Add(TXTextControl.HeaderFooterType.Header);
textControl1.Sections.Add(TXTextControl.SectionBreakKind.BeginAtNewPage);
textControl1.Sections[2].Format.Landscape = true;
textControl1.Sections[2].HeadersAndFooters.GetItem(TXTextControl.HeaderFooterType.Header).ConnectedToPrevious = false;
TXTextControl.Selection mySelection = new TXTextControl.Selection(0, -1);
mySelection.Text = "New Section";
textControl1.Sections[2].HeadersAndFooters.GetItem(TXTextControl.HeaderFooterType.Header).Selection = mySelection;
[Visual Basic]
TextControl1.HeadersAndFooters.Add(TXTextControl.HeaderFooterType.Header)
TextControl1.Sections.Add(TXTextControl.SectionBreakKind.BeginAtNewPage)
TextControl1.Sections(2).Format.Landscape = True
TextControl1.Sections(2).HeadersAndFooters.GetItem(TXTextControl.HeaderFooterType.Header).ConnectedToPrevious = False
Dim MySelection = New TXTextControl.Selection(0, -1)
MySelection.Text = "New Section"
TextControl1.Sections(2).HeadersAndFooters.GetItem(TXTextControl.HeaderFooterType.Header).Selection = MySelection