Text alignment for components in component diagram

Question

Is there a way to set the text alignment for a specific stereotype in component diagrams? Right now, I can only either get everything changed by a global skinparameter, or anything at all. Isn't there a middle ground?

EDIT: inclusion of an example. In the diagram below, I don't know how to centralize / align the text to the left on those components individually.

@startuml
skinparam {
    defaultTextAlignment left
}

skinparam component {
    defaultTextAlignment<<centered>> center
}

component left [
    I wanted this long long long text
    aligned to the left
]

component center<<centered>> [
    I wanted this long long long text
    centered
]


@enduml

Comments

Related: https://forum.plantuml.net/10658/how-to-align-text-to-the-left-container-for-example-rectangle

Answer 1

Not sure...

Could you post a simple and short example we could talk about ?

Thanks !

Comments

Added an example to the OP. Thanks!

Answer 2

Hello L.,

FYI that is now fixed and implemented on v1.2024.8 (even since v1.2024.7):

• Release v1.2024.8 · plantuml/plantuml (github.com)

- Thanks PlantUML team for your work.

Here is the corresponding code, with new style feature:

@startuml
<style>
component {
  HorizontalAlignment left
  .centered {
    HorizontalAlignment center
  }
}
</style>

component left [
    I wanted this long long long text
    aligned to the left
]

component center<<centered>> [
    I wanted this long long long text
    centered
]
@enduml

Ref.:

• [Style] Improve `HorizontalAlignment` management · Issue #1640 · plantuml/plantuml (github.com)

Regards,
Th.