WPF - Textblock

A TextBlock is a lightweight control for displaying small amounts of read-only text. The hierarchical inheritance of TextBlock class is as follows −

Hierarchical of Textblock

Commonly Used Properties of TextBlock Class

Sr. No. Property & Description
1

ContentEnd

Gets a TextPointer object for the end of text content in the TextBlock.
2

ContentStart

Gets a TextPointer object for the start of text content in the TextBlock.
3

IsTextSelectionEnabled

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether text selection is enabled in the TextBlock, either through user action or calling selection-related API.
4

IsTextSelectionEnabledProperty

Identifies the IsTextSelectionEnabled dependency property.
5

LineHeight

Gets or sets the height of each line of content.
6

MaxLines

Gets or sets the maximum lines of text shown in the TextBlock.
7

SelectedText

Gets a text range of selected text.
8

SelectionEnd

Gets the end position of the text selected in the TextBlock.
9

SelectionHighlightColor

Gets or sets the brush used to highlight the selected text.
10

SelectionStart

Gets the starting position of the text selected in the TextBlock.
11

Text

Gets or sets the text contents of a TextBlock.
12

TextAlignment

Gets or sets a value that indicates the horizontal alignment of text content.
13

TextTrimming

Gets or sets the text trimming behavior to employ when content overflows the content area.
14

TextWrapping

Gets or sets how the TextBlock wraps text.

Commonly Used Events of TextBlock Class

Sr. No. Event & Description
1

ContextMenuOpening

Occurs when the system processes an interaction that displays a context menu.

2

SelectionChanged

Occurs when the text selection has changed.

Commonly Used Methods in TextBlock Class

Sr. No. Method & Description
1

Focus

Focuses the TextBlock, as if it were a conventionally focusable control.
2

Select

Selects a range of text in the TextBlock.
3

SelectAll

Selects the entire contents in the TextBlock.

Example

  • Let’s create a new WPF project with WPFTextBlockControl.
  • Drag a text block from the toolbox.
  • Change the background color of the text block from the properties window.
  • The following example shows the usage of TextBlock in an XAML application.
  • Here is the XAML code in which a TextBlock is created with some properties.
<Window x:Class = "WPFTextBlockControl.MainWindow" 
   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" 
   xmlns:local = "clr-namespace:WPFTextBlockControl" 
   mc:Ignorable = "d" Title = "MainWindow" Height = "350" Width = "604">
	
   <Grid> 
      <TextBlock FontFamily = "Verdana" 
         LineStackingStrategy = "MaxHeight" LineHeight = "10" Width = "500"  
         TextWrapping = "Wrap" Background = "#FFE2B1B1" Margin = "48,8,48,10">
			
         Use the <Run FontSize = "30">LineStackingStrategy</Run> property to determine how
            a line box is created for each line. A value of <Run FontSize = "20">MaxHeight</Run> 
            specifies that the stack height is the smallest value that contains all the inline 
            elements on that line when those elements are properly aligned. A value of <Run 
            FontSize = "20"> BlockLineHeight</Run> specifies that the stack height is 
            determined by the block element LineHeight property value. 
      </TextBlock>  
   </Grid> 
	
</Window>

When you compile and execute the above code, it will produce the following output −

Output of Textblock

We recommend that you execute the above example code and try the other properties and events of TextBlock class.

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