XAML - TextBlock

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

Properties

Events

Methods

Example

The following example shows the usage of TextBlock in an XAML application. Here is the XAML code to create and initialize a TextBlock with some properties.

<Window x:Class = "XAMLTextBlock.MainWindow" 
   xmlns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
   xmlns:x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
   Title = "MainWindow" Height = "350" Width = "604">
	
   <Grid> 
      <StackPanel> 
         <TextBlock FontFamily = "Verdana" 
            LineStackingStrategy = "MaxHeight" 
            LineHeight = "10" Width = "500" TextWrapping = "Wrap">
				
            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>
      </StackPanel> 
   </Grid>
   
</Window>

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

We recommend you to execute the above example code and experiment with some other properties and events.