Text alignment in a WPF DataGrid

Question

How can I align the column data to center in a WPF DataGrid?

Answer 1

It's hard to say without knowing specifics, but here's a DataGridTextColumn that is centered:

<wpf:DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Binding="{Binding Name}" IsReadOnly="True">
    <wpf:DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>
        <Style>
            <Setter Property="FrameworkElement.HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
        </Style>
    </wpf:DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>
</wpf:DataGridTextColumn>

Answer 2

+1 for Kent Boogaart. I ended up doing this, which makes the code slightly less cluttered (and enables me to use the alignment on several columns):

<Resources>
      <Style x:Key="NameCellStyle" TargetType="DataGridCell">
                <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center" />
      </Style>
</Resources>


<DataGrid.Columns>                           
   <DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" CellStyle="{StaticResource NameCellStyle}" Binding="{Binding Name}"/>                            
    // .. other columns        
</DataGrid.Columns>

Answer 3

I started with huttelihut's solution. Unfortunately, that didn't work for me just yet. I tweaked his answer and came up with this (solution is to align the text to the right):

<Resources>
    <Style x:Key="RightAligned" TargetType="TextBlock">
        <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Right"/>
    </Style>
</Resources>

As you can see, I applied the style to a TextBlock, not the DataGridCell.

And then I had to set the Element style, not the Cell style.

ElementStyle="{StaticResource RightAligned}"

Answer 4

Thanks Danny Beckett for converting @MohammedAFadil's XAML answer, converted to C# code. All of my datagrids are set up dynamically, so I can change anything, whenever.

To set up an empty datagrid, with nothing in it and then just bind it to data, just take your datagrid.columns

        var centerTextSetter = new Style(typeof(DataGridCell))
        {
            Setters = { new Setter(TextBlock.TextAlignmentProperty, TextAlignment.Center) }
        };
        DgDbNames.Columns.Add(new DataGridTextColumn()
        {
            Header = "Db Name",
            Binding = new System.Windows.Data.Binding("DbName"),
            IsReadOnly = true,
            Width = new DataGridLength(0.2, DataGridLengthUnitType.Star),
            CellStyle = centerTextSetter
        });

Answer 5

If someone is still looking for answer for this, here's what worked for me:

<DataGridTextColumn ...>
    <DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type DataGridCell}">
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type DataGridCell}">
                        <Grid Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">
                            <ContentPresenter VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
                        </Grid>
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
        </Style>
    </DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>
</DataGridTextColumn>

Answer 6

My favorite solution is:

<DataGridTextColumn Header="My Column" Binding="{Binding MyDBValue}" Width="100" >
<DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>
        <Style>
                <Setter Property="FrameworkElement.HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
        </Style>
</DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>