Change the Textbox height?

Question

How do I change the height of a textbox ?

Neither of the below work:

this.TextBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(173, 100);
         


        

Answer 1

you can also change you can also change MinimumSize

Answer 2

May be it´s a little late. But you can do this.

txtFoo.Multiline = true;
txtFoo.MinimumSize = new Size(someWith,someHeight);

I solved it that way.

Answer 3

So after having the same issue with not being able to adjust height in text box, Width adjustment is fine but height never adjusted with the above suggestions (at least for me), I was finally able to take make it happen. As mentioned above, the issue appeared to be centered around a default font size setting in my text box and the behavior of the text box auto sizing around it. The default font size was tiny. Hence why trying to force the height or even turn off autosizing failed to fix the issue for me.

Set the Font properties to the size of your liking and then height change will kick in around the FONT size, automatically. You can still manually set your text box width. Below is snippet I added that worked for me.

    $textBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$textBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(60,300)
$textBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(600,80)
$textBox.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Times New Roman",18,[System.Drawing.FontStyle]::Regular)
$textBox.Form.Font = $textbox.Font

Please note the Height value in '$textBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(600,80)' is being ignored and the FONT size is actually controlling the height of the text box by autosizing around that font size.

Answer 4

public partial class MyTextBox : TextBox
{
    [DefaultValue(false)]
    [Browsable(true)]
    public override bool AutoSize
    {
        get
        {
            return base.AutoSize;
        }
        set
        {
            base.AutoSize = value;
        }
    }

    public MyTextBox()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.AutoSize = false;
    }

Answer 5

This is what worked nicely for me since all I wanted to do was set the height of the textbox. The property is Read-Only and the property is in the Unit class so you can't just set it. So I just created a new Unit and the constructor lets me set the height, then set the textbox to that unit instead.

Unit height = txtTextBox.Height;
double oldHeight = height.Value;
double newHeight = height.Value + 20; //Added 20 pixels
Unit newHeightUnit = new Unit(newHeight);
txtTextBox.Height = newHeightUnit;

Answer 6

for me, the best approach is remove border of the textbox, and place it inside a Panel, which can be customized as you like.