| Property | Value | Description | 
|---|
| BackgroundColor  | colorspec | The color to use for exposed areas of the layout background. This can be an RGB triple (e.g. [0 0 1]) or a colour name (e.g. 'b'). | 
| BeingDeleted  | [ on | off ] | is the object in the process of being deleted. | 
| Children  | handle array | List of child objects within this layout (note that this can only be set to permutations of itself). | 
| DeleteFcn  | function_handle | Function to call when the layout is being deleted | 
| Enable  | [ on | off ] | Is interaction with this layout enabled? Note that changing the enable property will cause all children contained to also be enabled/disabled, however since they can be individually re-enabled the state of this property does not reflect the state of the children. See the enable example for more details. | 
| Padding  | positive integer | Number of pixels of extra space around the outside of the layout. | 
| Parent  | handle | The handle of the parent figure or container. | 
| Position  | [x y w h] | The position (x,y) and size (w,h) of the layout. | 
| SelectedChild  | positive integer or empty | Which child is visible. | 
| Tag  | string | A string that can be used to identify this object later. | 
| Type  | string | the object type (class). | 
| Units  | [ inches | centimeters | normalized | points | pixels | characters ] | The units of measurement for position the layout within its parent. | 
| Visible  | [ on | off ] | Is the object visible on screen. |