drawing snake decoration in a box tikz

Question

I am trying to draw some snake decorations in a box using tikz library but couldn't achieve what I want. Why there is mis-alignment between the actual markings and the snakes. I am using the following code for this.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing, shapes, arrows, shadows, positioning}

\newcommand{\tikzmark}[2]{%
 \tikz[overlay,remember picture] \node[text=black,
       inner sep=2pt] (#1) {#2};}

 \begin{document}

 \begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \tikzstyle{box}=[draw, fill=pink!10, text centered, drop shadow]
 \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
 \node (main) [box, minimum height=20em, minimum width=10em,align=left] 
 {
  \tikzmark{a}{}xxxxxxxx\tikzmark{b}{}\\
  \tikzmark{c}{}xxxxxxxx\tikzmark{d}{}\\
 };

 \draw [-,decorate,decoration=snake] (a.center) -- (b.center);
 \draw [-,decorate,decoration=snake] (c.center) -- (d.center);
 \end{tikzpicture}
 \end{figure}
 \end{document}

What exactly do you want to achieve? If we knew your goal, it'd be easier to know what to do. — Alenanno, Apr 26 '15 at 10:44
@Alenanno I simply want to draw snake decorations in place of text 'xxxxxxxxxxx'. — Shahzad, Apr 26 '15 at 10:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '15 at 10:51

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May be you have to adjust the baseline in

\newcommand{\tikzmark}[2]{%
 \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex,overlay,remember picture] \node[text=black,
       inner sep=2pt] (#1) {#2};}

to get

enter image description here

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing, shapes, arrows, shadows, positioning}

\newcommand{\tikzmark}[2]{%
 \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex,overlay,remember picture] \node[text=black,
       inner sep=2pt] (#1) {#2};}

 \begin{document}

 \begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \tikzstyle{box}=[draw, fill=pink!10, text centered, drop shadow]
 \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
 \node (main) [box, minimum height=20em, minimum width=10em,align=left]
 {
  \tikzmark{a}{}xxxxxxxx\tikzmark{b}{}\\
  \tikzmark{c}{}xxxxxxxx\tikzmark{d}{}\\
 };

 \draw [-,decorate,decoration=snake] (a.center) -- (b.center);
 \draw [-,decorate,decoration=snake] (c.center) -- (d.center);
 \end{tikzpicture}
 \end{figure}
 \end{document}

answered Apr 26 '15 at 10:51

Even after copy-pasting the above code, I am not getting the same output as posted in your image. Between, the output in the image is what I exactly want. – Shahzad Apr 26 '15 at 10:58
@Shahzad You have to compile 2-3 times. – Apr 26 '15 at 11:00
Yes. I did compiled for several times but its not producing the desired output. – Shahzad Apr 26 '15 at 11:03
@Shahzad Are you using the latest tikz? i.e. version 3? – Apr 26 '15 at 11:11
Yes. Its version 3.0.0. – Shahzad Apr 26 '15 at 11:16
@Shahzad: Try compiling the above code as such. Does it work? It works for me, hence hard to guess. – Apr 26 '15 at 12:34

drawing snake decoration in a box tikz

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