Align text in labels, textboxes and textblocks

Question

Can someone please give me some guidance on how to align text in labels, textboxes and textblocks?  I don’t see any properties for this and didn’t find anything googling.

 

thanks.

 

Answer 1

Check the HorizontalContentAlignment or HorizontalAlignment property. This is what you are looking for.

For example

<TextBox HorizontalContentAlignment="Right">test string</TextBox>

<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right">test</TextBlock>

 

 

Answer 2

 

No that doesnt do it.  that aligns the control, not the text.  I'm looking for the function HorizontalTextAlign = left,right, center, justify would offer (and same for top, bottom, center)

Answer 3

As for Textbox I'm not sure the HorizontalContentAlignment does the same as HorizontalAlignment. Anyway you can create your own template for textbox or textblock where you provide this functionality.

Answer 4

 

I found that

<TextBlock TextAlignment="Center"

works for left, center, right, justified.  But is there anything for top, center and bottom?

Answer 5

For top, center and bottom, you can use TextBlock.VerticalAlignment instead.

Hope this helps

Answer 6

It's doesn't work :(((

Answer 7

 FYI for all,

this didnt work for me either in the beginning, i was trying to align the text in the header of a listview.
i had a textblock in the data template of the header and i was setting the alignment properties of the textblock itself to no avail. when i set the HorizontalContentAlignment property of the GridViewColumnHeader itself that did the trick.

hope this helps :)

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Answer 8

For a TextBlock on a canvas I found that in order for TextAlignment to work I needed to assign a specific width to the TextBlock.

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Louis T Klauder

Answer 9

<TextBox VerticalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalContentAlignment="Center"> 
Test 
</TextBox>