placeElement
Places content at an absolute position.
Placed content will not affect the position of other content. Place is always relative to its parent container and will be in the foreground of all other content in the container. Page margins will be respected.
Example
#set page(height: 60pt)
Hello, world!
#place(
top + right,
square(
width: 20pt,
stroke: 2pt + blue
),
)
Parameters
alignment
Relative to which position in the parent container to place the content.
- If
floatisfalse, then this can be any alignment other thanauto. - If
floatistrue, then this must beauto,top, orbottom.
When an axis of the page is auto sized, all alignments relative to that axis will be ignored, instead, the item will be placed in the origin of the axis.
Default: start
float
Whether the placed element has floating layout.
Floating elements are positioned at the top or bottom of the page, displacing in-flow content.
Default: false
View example
#set page(height: 150pt)
#let note(where, body) = place(
center + where,
float: true,
clearance: 6pt,
rect(body),
)
#lorem(10)
#note(bottom)[Bottom 1]
#note(bottom)[Bottom 2]
#lorem(40)
#note(top)[Top]
#lorem(10)
clearance
The amount of clearance the placed element has in a floating layout.
Default: 1.5em
dx
The horizontal displacement of the placed content.
Default: 0pt
View example
#set page(height: 100pt)
#for i in range(16) {
let amount = i * 4pt
place(center, dx: amount - 32pt, dy: amount)[A]
}
This does not affect the layout of in-flow content. In other words, the placed content is treated as if it were wrapped in a move element.
dy
The vertical displacement of the placed content.
This does not affect the layout of in-flow content. In other words, the placed content is treated as if it were wrapped in a move element.
Default: 0pt
body
The content to place.