I have the Grid layout with 3 rows.How do i split the 3rd row into 2 columns.
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="0.75*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.25*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="36"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
Two ways you can do it:
Use nested layouts. Put another Grid in the third row, and have two columns in that sub-grid.
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions> ... </Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ThingInFirstRow Grid.Row="0" />
<ThingInSecondRow Grid.Row="1" />
<Grid Grid.Row="2">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ThingInLowerLeft Grid.Column="0" />
<ThingInLowerRight Grid.Column="0" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
Stick with one Grid, give it two columns, and make the things in the first two rows span across both columns using ColumnSpan.
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions> ... </Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ThingInFirstRow Grid.Row="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" />
<ThingInSecondRow Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" />
<ThingInLowerLeft Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" />
<ThingInLowerRight Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions >
<RowDefinition Height="0.75"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.25"/>
<RowDefinition Height="36"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="2">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
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How to access a nested grid element with Grid.Column and Grid.Row? Normally, Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" is the way to go. But I dont know how to access a nested one? for example: Column 0, Nested Column 3, Row 1.
I have added a picture of the layout structure:
Grid Layout
<Button Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="87" Height="23" Text="btn" BorderThickness="1,1,0,1" />
Nested grid:
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="#FFA3A3A3" Height="540" Width="952" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="10"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="10"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="10"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="10"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="140*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="346*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="52*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="220.5*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
<Grid Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="40*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="120*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="146*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="146*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
Some code...
<Button Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="87" Height="23" Text="btn" BorderThickness="1,1,0,1" />
</Grid>
you can/need not access a nested grid.
Grid.Column/Row always means the parent grid.
<Grid x:Name="Grid1">
<Grid x:Name="Grid2" Grid.Row="0", Grid.Columns="0">
<TextBlock Grid.Row="0", Grid.Columns="0"> TextBlock in Grid2[0,0]</TextBlock>
</Grid>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="1", Grid.Columns="0"> TextBlock in Grid1[1,0]</TextBlock>
</Grid>
The nested Grid2 is in [0,0] of Grid1
I want to get a structure like this:
So i tried this:
<!-- Canvas -->
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="4*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<!--Toolbox & poperties -->
<Grid Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.Row="0">
<Button Content="sdf"/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Grid.Row="1">
<Button Content="sdf"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Grid>
But I couldn't get the half of the height using grid. What else I could do?
You can try the following markup and use Grid.RowSpan to extend StackPanel into two rows
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="4*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Content="sdf"/>
<Button Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" Content="sdf"/>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="2"/>
</Grid>
I'm trying to use the grid row / column definitions in my wpf application. At the moment, I need to implement a list view inside a GroupBox. Here I need to ignore the column definitions i set in the top in the view.
Row and column definitions:
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="260" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="250" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="20" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="180" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="20" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="180" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
Here you see I have a rowDefinition with a height of 260. This should contain my list view. The problem is that it's inside the columns I have made and therefore it won't take all space. Is there somehow a setting so that this row will ignore the columns I have set? I still want the columns to be used for the other rows.
Here you see a picture of how it looks:
Hope someone can help, good day.
Just use attached property Grid.ColumnSpan :
<ListView Grid.ColumnSpan="6"/>
It will extend your ListView for 6 columns.
Simple advice about your UI:
I suggest you to create you resizable XAML, not static. I mean it is not good:
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="260" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="250" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="20" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="180" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="20" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="180" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
However, it is better:
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="3*" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="2*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="2*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
It gives resizable UI(XAML) at any display.
You can set Grid.ColumnSpan="6" on your listview. It will expand in the row.
<ListView Grid.ColumnSpan="6"/>
depends on how you want to display the listview.
you can add another grid, just to be safe, that you will want to add something later on that row.
<Grid grid.Row="6" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="6">
<ListView> </ListView>
</Grid>
I want to have a childGrid in second column of parentGrid (in childGrid I want to have two columns: first for label, second for textbox)
How can I do Something like that? I tried the following code:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column=1>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Based on your code, just fixed up a little:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Note that ColumnDefinition don't have a Height - they have a Width. You also need to define the ColumnDefinitions and RowDefinitions separately - you have them mixed together in your outer grid. I removed the RowDefinitions from the outer grid because you don't appear to be using them. Your inner grid has two columns and four rows.
You might find this useful. Try pasting this into a page using Kaxaml and playing around with the various parameters of the objects in the outer Grid. I find using Kaxaml for prototyping and experimenting with XAML layouts indispensable.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<!--
When I'm composing grids in XAML, I group things together by type, not by where
they live in the grid. This turns out to make a lot of maintenance tasks
easier.
Also, since Grid.Row and Grid.Column default to 0, a lot of people (and tools)
omit them if that's their value. Not me. It lets me quickly check to make
sure that content is where I think it is, just by looking at how it's organized
in the XAML.
-->
<TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Background="Lavender" Padding="10" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">Here's the first row of the outer grid.</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Background="Lavender" Padding="10" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">Here's the third row of the outer grid.</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Background="AliceBlue" Padding="10">Here's the first column of the second row.</TextBlock>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<!--
This part's pretty important. Setting up the SharedSizeGroups for these
two columns keeps the labels and text boxes neatly arranged irrespective of
their length.
-->
<ColumnDefinition SharedSizeGroup="Label"/>
<ColumnDefinition SharedSizeGroup="TextBox"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0">First label</Label>
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0">Second label</Label>
<Label Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0">Third label, containing unusually long content</Label>
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1">First text box, containing unusually long content</TextBox>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">Second text box</TextBox>
<TextBox Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1">Third text box</TextBox>
</Grid>
</Grid>
It might come a little confusing how to put controls in sub grids. Here is an example.
We have 3 * 3 cell grid. And then center cell is further divided in 3 rows where each row has a button.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Grid.Row="0" Content="Button1"/>
<Button Grid.Row="1" Content="Button2"/>
<Button Grid.Row="2" Content="Button3"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Result:
Phenevo, I've done XAML UI design extensively this year. Try this out, you can easily migrate the code to either a Window or a UserControl. I color-coded the grids and panels so that you could affirm their layout in real time -- blow away the background parameters when you're satisfied.
<UserControl
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="UatControlLibrary.sampleChilGrid"
x:Name="UserControl"
MinWidth="400"
MinHeight="300"
Width="auto"
Height="auto">
<Grid
x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<Grid
x:Name="parentGrid"
Width="auto"
Height="auto"
Background="Red">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid
x:Name="chilGrid"
Width="auto"
Height="auto"
Background="Black"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel
x:Name="stkpnlLabels"
Background="White"
Grid.Column="0"
Grid.Row="0" />
<StackPanel
x:Name="stkpnlTextboxes"
Background="Blue"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="0" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
So for example... in the following user control I have a grid with two rows. I want the bottom row to be the height of it's contents and the top row to be the height of the rest of the grid. I can set a absolute height as in the example, but that isn't particularly flexible. Say someone changes a font sizing the text could get clipped. Is there any built in way to achieve this?
<UserControl x:Class="Tournament.View.TeamCreator"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" >
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" ShowGridLines="True">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
<RowDefinition Height="20" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Text="TEAM NAME" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" />
<TextBlock Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="0" Text="MANAGER NAME" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="3" Grid.Row="0" />
<Button Grid.Column="4" Grid.Row="0" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
In WPF this is as simple as:
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
I suspect the same works in Silverlight?