How to get controls in WPF to fill available space?

Question

Some WPF controls (like the Button) seem to happily consume all the available space in its\' container if you don\'t specify the height it is to have.

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Answer 1

There are also some properties you can set to force a control to fill its available space when it would otherwise not do so. For example, you can say:

HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch"

... to force the contents of a control to stretch horizontally. Or you can say:

HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"

... to force the control itself to stretch horizontally to fill its parent.