---
nav-title: "absolute-layout How-To"
title: "absolute-layout"
environment: nativescript
description: "Examples for using absolute-layout"
previous_url: /ApiReference/ui/layouts/absolute-layout/HOW-TO
---
# AbsoluteLayout
Using an AbsoluteLayout requires the AbsoluteLayout module.
{%snippet absolute-layout-require%}

### Declaring an AbsoluteLayout
``` XML
<Page>
  <AbsoluteLayout>
    <Label text="This is Label 1" left="30" top="70" />
  </AbsoluteLayout>
</Page>
```

## Creating and populating a AbsoluteLayout with children
{%snippet absolute-layout-populating%}