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how to get each character of a textblock of different color in wpf? Use many different runs : <TextBlock FontSize="22"> <Run Foreground="Gold">H</Run> <Run Foreground="Maroon">e</Run> <Run Foreground="Blue">l</Run> <Run Foreground="Orange">l</Run> <Run Foreground="Brown">o</Run> </TextBlock> This produce the result: You can compose colors by adding each color as a new textbook for example: TextBlock printTextBlock = new TextBlock(); printTextBlock.Foreground = Brushes.Red; printTextBlock.Text = "This text will colored with red"; StackPanel.Children.Add(printTextBlock); The same for the rest of

This question already has an answer here : TextBlock.TextWrapping - how to make the text wrap so that the lines are center-aligned? (1 answer) I'm having an issue with multiline text blocks where it is not center aligning properly The text is coming like abcde\nabc This comes out abcde abc What I want is abcde abc This seems a simple thing and I would have thought that the textblock would center align like that automatically but it does not seem to. Try the TextAlignment property instead of HorizontalAlignment . First one is the alignment of text in the TextBlock , second the alignment of the

I have a TextBlock with the following setting: TextWrapping="Wrap" Can I determine the maximum number of lines? for example consider the following string TextBlock.Text : This is a very good horse under the blackboard!! It currently has been shows like this: This is a very good horse under the blackboard!! I need that to become something like: This is a very good horse ... any solution? Update (for UWP) In UWP Apps you don't need this and can use the TextBlock property MaxLines (see MSDN ) Original Answer: If you have a specific LineHeight you can calculate the maximum height for the TextBlock

Is there a way to have \n make a line break in a TextBlock ? <TextBlock Text="line1\nLine2" /> Or is there a better way to force a middle line break, inside the Text attribute? <LineBreak /> This doesn't work for me, it needs to be the value of the Text attribute, because the text string is being set from an outside source. I'm familiar with LineBreak but it's not the answer I'm looking for. Noaki I know this is ressurecting an old question, but I had the same problem. The solution for me was to use HTML encoded line feeds ( &#10; ). Line1&#10;Line2 Looks like Line1 Line2 For more of the HTML

I am developing window phone 7 application in C#. I am new to the window phone 7 application. I am also new to the silverlight. I want to generate the bold text of Texblock dynamically. I want to generate the bold text only for some part of the text. I am using the following code IncometextBlock.Text = "Income entries on " + selectedDate.ToShortDateString() + " Page - "+SelectedButtonName+""; I want the output as " Income entries on 21/01/2011 Page - A " I want the above output. How to make the bold text for above requirement ? Can you please provide me any code or link through which I can

I am trying to set rounded corner of TextBlock in xaml . But there is no such property. <Grid x:Name="grdDis" Grid.Row="1"> <TextBlock Text="Description" TextWrapping="Wrap" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Name="txtDescription" Margin="18,10,0,0" Height="128" Width="445"/> </Grid> How can I set rounded corner of TextBlock. And also want to set Background color of TextBlock. Use Border : <Border Margin="5" Padding="5" BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Red" Background="AntiqueWhite" CornerRadius="10"> <TextBlock Text="Lorem ipsum"/> </Border> for that use the Border element as