Vertical Line Options

Brief

The article explains how to customize the options of Vertical lines.

Details

The term Vertical Line applies to all lines on a chart created with the Add Vertical Line command of the Add Line tool.

You can customize the line options in a variety of ways: select line colors, styles, and widths, show or hide line tags, etc.
To customize the options:

  1. Do one of the following:
  2. The Options dialog box appears.



  3. In the left-hand panel, click Line Options.
  4. In the right-hand panel, scroll down to see vertical line options and customize them at your choice:

Vertical Line Options

Option

Description

Vertical line color

The option allows selecting the default color of vertical lines: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.

Vertical line width

The option allows selecting the default width of vertical lines: click in the option row, highlight or delete the existing value, and then type or select a width value of your choice. The values are whole numbers from 1 through 5.

Vertical line style

The option allows selecting the default style of vertical lines: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then, in the list that appears, click a style of your choice. The values are Solid line, Dashed line, Dotted line, Dashes and dots, and Dashes and double dots.

Show vertical line in background

The option allows selecting how to show vertical lines on a chart by default: in the background (behind the chart bars) or in the forefront (in front of the chart bars). To select, click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then click a value of your choice. The values are False and True.

Show vertical line tag

The option allows selecting whether to show a vertical line tag in the price axis by default or not: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then click a value of your choice. The values are False and True.

Vertical line tag text color

The option allows selecting the default color of vertical line tag text: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.

Select text color of vertical line tag automatically

The option allows selecting whether the text color of a vertical line tag is selected automatically by default or not: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then click a value of your choice. The values are False and True.

To enable the modified values, click OK at the bottom of the dialog box.

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