Consider the following XAML:
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="Some Text" TextAlignment="Right" />
<TextBlock Text="Some Text" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
</Grid>
So long as both TextBlocks are set to the same Grid.Row and Grid.Column, they will always appear in the same place - one on top of the other.
Similar concept, here - with the 2 lines of text in both the StackPanels aligning exactly:
<Grid>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="Line One" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
<TextBlock Text="Line Two" TextAlignment="Right" />
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="Line One" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
<TextBlock Text="Line Two" TextAlignment="Right" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
And so on...
In terms of displaying the text to the right of the parent, the TextAlignment and HorizontalAlignment attributes are both doing the same thing - from what I can see.
Can anybody tell me what the actual difference between TextAlignment and HorizontalAlignment is, when it comes to TextBlocks?
Is there a preferred choice of the two to use?
Are there any implications to using either?
HorizontalAlignment determines the alignment of the TextBox relative to its parent.
TextAlignment determines the alignment of the text within the TextBox
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I want to add a Button in a Textblock. I mean, Buttons(Objects) among Text.
The code below does not work.
<TextBlock>
<Button />
</TextBlock>
TextBlock seems to support only text, so which control should I use?
You can't display anything but text in a TextBlock. If you want to display a Button in some running text you could for example use a StackPanel:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Text="Some text with a " /><Button Content="Button" VerticalAlignment="Center" /><TextBlock Text="in it." />
</StackPanel>
This is my XAML
<RelativePanel Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}" Margin="10,0,0,0">
<TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle"
RelativePanel.AlignTopWithPanel="True"
Style="{StaticResource WindowTitle}">This is my page title</TextBlock>
<TextBlock x:Name="ActivityLabel"
RelativePanel.Below="PageTitle"
Style="{StaticResource CaptionTitle}">Activity</TextBlock>
<ComboBox x:Name="ActivityOptions"
RelativePanel.RightOf="ActivityLabel"
RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True"
RelativePanel.AlignHorizontalCenterWith="ActivityLabel"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=SupportedActivityTypes}">
</ComboBox>
</RelativePanel>
And this is my output
What I want to achieve is that the title is on top of the page, multiple lines below the title. Each line has a caption, right to the caption is combo box, textbox and so on, but the right side should stretch to the right border of the panel.
Obviously my code does not work, the combo does not even central align with my caption text as I specified in markup. And how to make the left side of combo to touch the caption text and right side to the border of the panel?
I figured it out, I need following XAML
<RelativePanel Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}" Margin="10,0,0,0">
<TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle"
Margin="0,0,0,20"
RelativePanel.AlignTopWithPanel="True"
Style="{StaticResource WindowTitle}">This is page title</TextBlock>
<TextBlock x:Name="ActivityLabel"
RelativePanel.Below="PageTitle"
Style="{StaticResource CaptionTitle}">Activity</TextBlock>
<ComboBox x:Name="ActivityOptions"
Margin="10,0,0,0"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
RelativePanel.RightOf="ActivityLabel"
RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True"
RelativePanel.AlignVerticalCenterWith="ActivityLabel"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=SupportedActivityTypes}">
</ComboBox>
</RelativePanel>
The combo box is on the same line of caption label ("Activity") and meanwhile the width stretches to relative panel size.
how to make the left side of combo to touch the caption text and right side to the border of the panel?
You need to set RelativePanel.RightOf="PageTitle" and RelativePanel.AlignVerticalCenterWith="PageTitle".
<RelativePanel Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}" Margin="10,0,0,0">
<TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle"
RelativePanel.AlignTopWithPanel="True"
Style="{StaticResource TitleTextBlockStyle}" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="35">This is my page title</TextBlock>
<TextBlock x:Name="ActivityLabel"
RelativePanel.Below="PageTitle"
Style="{StaticResource CaptionTextBlockStyle}">Activity</TextBlock>
<ComboBox x:Name="ActivityOptions"
RelativePanel.RightOf="PageTitle"
RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True"
RelativePanel.AlignVerticalCenterWith="PageTitle"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=SupportedActivityTypes}">
</ComboBox>
</RelativePanel>
<ContentControl Width="120">
<ContentControl.Content>
<ContentControl>
<ContentControl.ContentTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="ABC" TextAlignment="Right" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ContentControl.ContentTemplate>
</ContentControl>
</ContentControl.Content>
Please find the above code.
It's not getting right aligned.
It is working, but ContentControl by default aligns it's content to the left with just enough place to show.
You can just set HorizontalContentAlignment to Right in ContentControl, so child don't have to worry about it:
<ContentControl Width="120" HorizontalContentAlignment="Right">
<TextBlock Text="ABC" />
</ContentControl>
Or you can set HorizontalContentAlignment to Stretch and leave the rest for child to figure out:
<ContentControl Width="120" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch">
<TextBlock Text="ABC" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
</ContentControl>
I started off with a Grouped Items Page template and have my data displaying in groups. I added some margins around these items to improve spacing, but now when I hover over these items, the margin area shows as highlighted. I'm sure this is an easy one for xaml gurus. Please assist!!
Here's my markup:
<GridView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<!-- ******************* here is my margins ******************* -->
<Border BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="2" Margin="0,0,20,20">
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="390" Height="190">
<Grid.Background>
<ImageBrush ImageSource="/Assets/default.png" Stretch="None"/>
</Grid.Background>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Image VerticalAlignment="Top" Stretch="None" Source="{Binding ImageUrl}" Margin="10,10,0,0"/>
<StackPanel MaxWidth="270">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Summary}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Brand}" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Detail}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</GridView.ItemTemplate>
Your ItemTemplate just populates over the existing style template for the GridViewItem Style which if you look in the default template shown in that link you'll see a Rectangle named "PointerOverBorder" which is shown (via the VisualStateManager) in the PointerOver state with its Fill set to ListViewItemPointerOverBackgroundThemeBrush.
You could go into the template (right-click, edit template) and remove it, or add your margins, or make it transparent or a number of options. Or could just overwrite the brush resource on the instance to be transparent or something kind of like;
<blah.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ListViewItemPointerOverBackgroundThemeBrush" Color="Transparent" />
</blah.Resources>
Hope this helps.
In the following XAML, the word "Test" centers horizontally but not vertically.
How can I get it to center vertically?
<Window x:Class="TestVerticalAlign2343.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
Title="Window1" Height="768" Width="1024">
<DockPanel LastChildFill="True">
<Slider x:Name="TheSlider"
DockPanel.Dock="Left"
Orientation="Vertical"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Center"
Minimum="0"
Maximum="10"
Cursor="Hand"
Value="{Binding CurrentSliderValue}"
IsDirectionReversed="True"
IsSnapToTickEnabled="True"
Margin="10 10 0 10"/>
<Border DockPanel.Dock="Right" Background="Beige"
Padding="10"
Margin="10"
CornerRadius="5">
<StackPanel Height="700">
<TextBlock
Text="Test"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="200" x:Name="TheNumber"/>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</DockPanel>
</Window>
A stackpanel, no matter how you stretch it, will collapse around the children. you can't make it grow more than that. Basically, that "Height=700" is not helping you.
So either set VerticalAlignment on the StackPanel to "center" so that the stackpanel goes into the center of the dockpanel...or remove the stackpanel altogether and set VerticalAlignment="Center" on the TextBlock.
Seems I asked this question 10 months ago, I got the above scenario to work by replacing the StackPanel with DockPanel LastChildFill=True like this:
<DockPanel LastChildFill="True">
<TextBlock
DockPanel.Dock="Top"
Text="Test"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="200" x:Name="TheNumber"/>
</DockPanel>
I stumbled across this which seems to work perfectly:
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="My Centered Text"
TextAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Grid>
The Grid ensures that the single TextBox within it fills the solitary cell in the grid and the VerticalAlignment in the TextBlock ensures that the text is centered within than.
Simply position/align your text horizontally however you require (the above snippet centers it in this axis also, but changing this doesn't alter the vertical centering).
Inside the StackPanel that surrounds the TextBlock, check out VerticalContentAlignment.