I have a label and a hyperlink button in silverlight and I would like to group them together so that the alignment is done on that group rather that having to align two different elements. Any idea of how this could be done please?
<TextBlock Text="Hello" Foreground="Black" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Margin="0,0,177,6"/>
<HyperlinkButton NavigateUri="http://www.mywebsite.mt/" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Margin="0,0,132,6">
<TextBlock Text="myWebsite" Foreground="Black" TextDecorations="Underline" />
</HyperlinkButton>
I want these a group, so I could only use 1 margin alignment
You shouldn't really need to use Margin like that, but since it looks they would just sit on top of one another you could of course use something like StackPanel to accomplish it.
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Margin="0,0,0,6">
<TextBlock Text="Hello"/>
<HyperlinkButton Content="myWebsite" Foreground="Black" NavigateUri="http://www.mywebsite.mt/"/>
</StackPanel>
Hope this helps.
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I know this is going to sound really stupid but is there anything I'm missing because I have a simple page in my windows 8.1 phone app with a checkbox and a button. I can click on the button just fine in the emulator but I can't get the checkbox to check or uncheck at all. I feel really stupid for not being able to do something this simple. Am I missing something here?
<Grid>
<TextBlock Name="lblTermsofAgreement"/>
<CheckBox Name="chkAcceptTerms" Checked="chkAcceptTerms_Checked" Click="chkAcceptTerms_Click" Unchecked="chkAcceptTerms_Unchecked" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Content="I accept the terms of agreement" VerticalAlignment="Center" IsEnabled="True"></CheckBox>
<TextBlock Name="lblTermsError" FontFamily="Red" Text="" />
<Button Name="btnAccept" Click="btnAccept_Click" Content="Accept" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Bottom"></Button>
</Grid>
All the controls are in row 0 column 0 for the grid so there was a control on top of it preventing it from getting checked. I would either add rows to the grid and set there rows or put the controls in a stack panel.
<Grid>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Name="lblTermsofAgreement"/>
<CheckBox Name="chkAcceptTerms" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Content="I accept the terms of agreement" VerticalAlignment="Center" IsEnabled="True"></CheckBox>
<TextBlock Name="lblTermsError" FontFamily="Red" Text="" />
<Button Name="btnAccept" Content="Accept" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Bottom"></Button>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
I got a weird problem with the rowSpan property of a grid.
I got a text that will take more than one line, so I told his stack spanel, RowSpan="2", so the text can be on multiple line, using Wrapping to, like this :
<StackPanel Grid.Row="0"
Grid.RowSpan="2"
Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock x:Name="tbConfirm"
Text={Binding TextConfirm}
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Grid.RowSpan="2"
FontSize="12">
</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
The property TextConfirm contains a text that should take two lines (I tried with the text without binding to see if it fills.
But, despite my RowSpan and my TextWrapping, it still on one line, and don't understand why.
When I make a column span, it will take the number of column define, but why row span doesn't work?
There is in the Grid, 5 column(width auto) and 5 row(height auto) define.
If I want to have one textblock, one textbox, and another one textblock.
How can I tell to go in the new line automatically?
Undefined width for the two textblocks, and define width for the textbox.
This is just an example, I don't wrote it at the moment.
<StackPanel Grid.Row="0"
Grid.RowSpan="2"
Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock x:Name="tbConfirm"
Text={Binding TextConfirm}
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Grid.RowSpan="2"
FontSize="12">
</TextBlock>
<textBox width ="200"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="tbConfirm2"
Text={Binding TextConfirm2}
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Grid.RowSpan="2"
FontSize="12">
</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
Will this, go automatically at the new line if necessary? Or do I need to define lines and colums in the xaml?
Thank you.
I'm not sure if i understand the question correctly but to get the text wrapping you don't need to span accross multiple rows. From what i've read you have set the column width to auto so it will let the TextBlock "grow" freely. If you want to get the wrapping working you should define a fixed width either on the column or on the TextBlock itself (and keep the TextWrapping="Wrap").
try binding the width of the textblock to that of the parent as you wont want it to exceed that
<TextBlock x:Name="tbConfirm"
Text="asasddadsa adassdasd asdasdasdsa asdasdssd asdasdasjdahsjakdhksajdhjsaalskasj skjdsajkdhajhasaskjhdsahsakdasjdhsajdhasjdhkjsad"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
Foreground="Black"
Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=stackPanelParent}"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="12">
</TextBlock>
I gave my own content to test. In case it overflows let me know.
I have this code on which I use a DockPanel on a Button.Content. However it doesn't let me right align the last image (small arrow).
<Button Height="70"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Left">
<Button.Content>
<DockPanel LastChildFill="False">
<Image DockPanel.Dock="Left"
Height="50"
Width="50"
Source="{StaticResource Placeholder}"
Stretch="UniformToFill"
Margin="5" />
<TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Left"
Text="Dummy text"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Margin="5" />
<Image DockPanel.Dock="Right"
Height="24"
Width="24"
Source="{StaticResource Right_Arrow_24}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
Stretch="UniformToFill"
Margin="5" />
</DockPanel>
</Button.Content>
</Button>
It now gives me this:
So the right small arrow should be placed on the right of the button and not just after the TextBlock.
I've found some similar issues and it looks like I did it correct, but somehow it isn't..
What am I doing wrong here?
Try to set the HorizontalContentAlignment of your button to "Stretch". Otherwise your DockPanel will use the size need by its content, then align left. You can confirm this behaviour by using different text lengths for your TextBlocks
You simply have to append an extra child to the DockPanel (say an empty Canvas) without the DockPanel.Dock attribute, so that all the remaining space is assigned to it.
In general, DockPanel only works fine only when its last child has no Dock constraint
Try setting
HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch"
On your button.
Coming from ASP.NET, this WPF stuff is just confusing. All I want to do is put a red asterisk by a label to indicate a required field. Playing around with stuff, I found that this actually does the trick:
<TextBlock Grid.Row="6" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Label Foreground="Red" Content="*" /><Label Content="Heavy Weight" />
</TextBlock>
Being that I just came up with this, I am not convinced it's the academic route a seasoned WPF developer would take. Additionally, this markup puts a huge amount of white space in between the asterisk and the label. In HTML, a span element would just render right beside its next sibling element. FYI, I tried putting a label within a label, but VS2010 kept barking about "The property 'content' is set more than once".
Any ideas?
Something like this would be more appropriate:
<TextBlock Grid.Row="6" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Span Foreground="Red">*</Span>Heavy Weight
</TextBlock>
Here is an overview of what can go into a TextBlock's content, more specifically here.
one more way is
<TextBlock Grid.Row="6" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Run Foreground="Red" Text="*" />
<Run Text="Heavy Weight" />
</TextBlock>
btw
Damascus's solution adds more UI Elements.
with CodeNaked's solution, its difficult to databind the Text.
The explanation is that you actually put two elements one after the other. You need to put them into a container.
Just a sample code of a sentence with red asterisk I did recently:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="5" >
<TextBlock Text="Display name"/>
<TextBlock Text="*" Foreground="Red" FontWeight="Bold" />
<TextBlock Text=":"/>
</StackPanel>
There, everything is in a StackPanel, so property 'content' will actually be set once (if you don't specify a group panel such as this one, you'll have to add only one element)
Let's say I have a simple TextBox next to a Label:
<StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Margin="3">MyLabel</Label>
<TextBox Margin="3" Width="100">MyText</TextBox>
</StackPanel>
...
</StackPanel>
This yields the following result:
As you can see, the base lines of MyLabel and MyText are not aligned, which looks ugly. Of course, I could start playing around with the margins until they match up, but since this is such a common requirement I'm sure that WPF provides a much easier and more elegant solution, which I just haven't found yet...
This behaviour is, I think, caused by the fact that the TextBox defaults to a vertical alignment of Stretch, which causes it to fill the available space and have the extra couple of pixels under the text. If you use this instead:
<StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label >MyLabel</Label>
<TextBox VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="100">MyText</TextBox>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
... you should see a cleaner result.
What do you think?
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Margin="3" VerticalContentAlignment="Center">MyLabel</Label>
<TextBox Margin="3" VerticalContentAlignment="Center" Width="100">MyText</TextBox>
</StackPanel>
I achieved that look in Kaxaml with:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Margin="3" VerticalAlignment="Center">MyLabel</Label>
<TextBox Margin="3" Width="100" VerticalAlignment="Center">MyText</TextBox>
</StackPanel>
I know that this is an old answer, but for here's an example for those who seek another way, where you don't need to rely on a fixed textbox width:
Instead of StackPanel, use a DockPanel and .Dock.
This proves to be very handy when used inside a Grid.
<DockPanel Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="2">
<Label Content="SomeTitle:" DockPanel.Dock="Left"></Label>
<TextBox x:Name="SomeValueTextBox" VerticalAlignment="Center" DockPanel.Dock="Right"></TextBox>
</DockPanel>
This question is not as trivial as it looks and the accepted answers lacks details. If you try custom heights with the controls, you will see issues.
First, this is the correct implementation as answered by User7116.
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Margin="3" VerticalAlignment="Center">MyLabel</Label>
<TextBox Margin="3" Width="100" VerticalAlignment="Center">MyText</TextBox>
</StackPanel>
The tricky part is that there two level of vertical alignments here so understand how the alignments works.
When we specify alignment for a control, we are telling it how to position itself in the parent container (See documentation). So when we specify VerticalAlignment="Center"> to the TextBox we are telling it that this TextBox should appear vertically centered in parent stackpanel.
Now the actual text inside that TextBox could also use vertical alignment within that TextBox! This is the 2nd level and actually quite tricky and is answered here.
If you experiment with setting the Label's height above to say 50 as well, you will see they will not align again. This is because Label is now taking larger area and its text inside that area is not vertical aligned so it doesn't look aligned again.
The code for above is:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Label Margin="3" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="50">MyLabel</Label>
<TextBox Margin="3" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="50" Height="50">MyText</TextBox>
</StackPanel>
Luckily when control height is default (like label control), it's just tall enough to contain the text so the inside alignment doesn't matter. But it comes into play if someone is setting custom heights for these controls and its better to understand how this works.