Crud alignment

[blondie63]

It would be helpful to be able to decide the alignment of labels and field contents separately, without too many wrappers!
For example:
$this->crud->addColumn([
'name' => 'total_hours',
'label' => trans('backpack::ash_base.hours'),
'type' => 'number',
'format' => 'getLocale()', // Or custom or others
'alignments' => [
'field' => 'right',
'label' => 'center'
],
]);

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There’s no mention in the provided knowledge sources of a built‑in alignments (or similar) option that lets you separately control label vs. value alignment for columns or fields.

For columns, the documented configurable attributes are things like name, label, type, searchLogic, orderLogic, wrapper, visibleInExport, etc., but nothing about alignment. [Columns 7.x]

The recommended way to change how a column is displayed is via the wrapper attribute (for example, adding classes or changing the element), or by creating/overwriting a custom column type. [Columns 7.x]

Similarly, for fields, the fluent API and array syntax expose label, type, wrapper, etc., but there’s no documented per‑field alignment API. [CRUD Fluent 7.x]

So:

• What you propose ('alignments' => ['field' => 'right', 'label' => 'center']) is not currently a documented feature.
• To achieve something similar today, you’d need to rely on wrapper (and possibly custom CSS / custom field or column blades) rather than a simple alignments option.

If you want this as a core feature, it would need to be opened (or continued) as a feature request in the Backpack repo/community, since the current docs and issues don’t show such an option existing yet.

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Relevant sources:

Allow Callable to Format Column/Field Names
Github Issue (closed): Changing column heading text
CRUD Fluent API|About Part 2
Github Issue (closed): [Feature Request] Allow changing labels in new CRUD fields JS API
Github Issue (closed): [4.0][Request] Make adding the same field / column / filter more DRY
2. CRUD Operations|Columns
Columns|Columns API
Github Issue (closed): [Feature proposal] Fluent syntax for CRUD

Github Issue (closed): Field improvement proposals - for, setLabelFromFormRequest and others
Github Issue (open): [Feature Request]Allow automatically translating field labels instead of requiring a "label" property for each
Export setting
Github Issue (closed): [Feature Request] Align backpack:field to what suggested in the documentation
Columns|Columns