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Multiline for WPF TextBox
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I am developing an app for sending some feedback.
Basically I'm trying to make a TextBox for comments, but I'm used to the WinForms
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MultiLine=true . I've set MinLines to 3, which is getting there, but preferably I'd like it if the user
is able to type wherever in this block - like press enter and do dot points sort of thing. For
example:
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- Item 1 blah
- Item 2 blahlb lahbvl d
But at the moment the text all stays on one line.
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- Item 1 blah - Item 2 blahb blahb blah
These comments will then help fill the body of an email which is sent. It may be pointless if I can't
easily keep the same formatting when putting this string into the email body string (so that it
looks like it does when sent as it does when typed).
Can I achieve what I'm after or do I have to leave it as all text on one line?
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Enable TextWrapping="Wrap" and AcceptsReturn="True" on your TextBox.
You might also wish to enable AcceptsTab and [Link] too.
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Jay Shukla Over a year ago
hey @itowlson if I creating multiline textbox with your method its work better but if I want to set textbox
text counter [Link] = [Link]; with this line its work but when I press enter
in the textbox counter will increase 2 characters. how can I do this task please help me.
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itowlson Over a year ago
This happens because the newline is two characters (CR/LF). If you want to treat it as a single character, do
something like [Link]("\r\n", " ").Length . Be careful though: if this is meant as
user feedback because your back end limits the number of characters, you may need to count the CR/LF as
two characters if that's how the back end will count it!
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Jay Shukla Over a year ago
I also ask this problem in this Link [Link]/questions/18459908/…
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eran otzap Over a year ago
Also make sure that VerticalContentAlignment is set to Stretch
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Borko Djurovic Over a year ago
Also add surrounding ScrollVewer component in order to have scroll bar.
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Here is a sample XAML that will allow TextBox to accept multiline text and it uses its own
scrollbars:
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<TextBox
Height="200"
Width="500"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
AcceptsReturn="True"
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HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"/>
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Also, if, like me, you add controls directly in XAML (not using the editor), you might get frustrated
that it won't stretch to the available height, even after setting those two properties.
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To make the TextBox stretch, set the Height="Auto" .
UPDATE:
In retrospect, I think this must have been necessary thanks to a default style for TextBoxes
specifying the height to some standard for the application somewhere in the App resources. It
may be worthwhile checking this if this helped you.
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The only property corresponding in WPF to the
Winforms property: [Link] = true
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<TextBox AcceptsReturn="True" ...... />
All other settings, such as VerticalAlignement , WordWrap etc., only control how the TextBox
interacts in the UI but do not affect the Multiline behaviour.
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Contrary to @Andre Luus, setting Height="Auto" will not make the TextBox stretch. The solution
I found was to set VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
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Andre Luus Over a year ago
The default value for 'VerticalAlignment' is 'Stretch' refer MSDN. And yes, it really worked for me. It might
depend on the control you placed the textbox in though, was it something non-standard?
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Andre Luus Over a year ago
Another likelihood is that you have a default style for textboxes defined somewhere in the scope of that
TextBox that defined a different value for VerticalAlignment. I would check with Snoop.
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Lee Louviere Over a year ago
If the container is fixed, the height auto will not work. Every parent container to the top must be able to
expand. Wrapping in a scrollbar works too.
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