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Asked: 2026-06-15T07:44:10+00:00

I have a Dockpanel with items inside a Canvas. The Dockpanel and any other

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I have a Dockpanel with items inside a Canvas. The Dockpanel and any other items (Grid etc) that I place inside the Canvas, only take up their minimum required space. How do I stretch these items to fill the entire Canvas?

    <Canvas x:Name="InfoCanvas" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="72,53,0,0">
        <DockPanel VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="0,0,0,0" x:Name="ReferenceInfo" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="0">
            <TextBox x:Name="ReferenceAuthor" GotFocus="FieldEnter" LostFocus="FieldLeave" FontSize="16" FontFamily="Segoe UI Light" Text="Author" Foreground="Gray" Background="Transparent" DockPanel.Dock="Top" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" BorderThickness="0" Margin="0,2,0,2"/>
            <TextBox x:Name="ReferenceTitle" GotFocus="FieldEnter" LostFocus="FieldLeave" FontSize="16" FontFamily="Segoe UI Light" Text="Title" Foreground="Gray" Background="Transparent" DockPanel.Dock="Top" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" BorderThickness="0" Margin="0,2,0,2"/>
            <TextBox x:Name="ReferenceDate" GotFocus="FieldEnter" LostFocus="FieldLeave" FontSize="16" FontFamily="Segoe UI Light" Text="Date" Foreground="Gray" Background="Transparent" DockPanel.Dock="Top" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" BorderThickness="0" Margin="0,2,0,2"/>
        </DockPanel>  
    </Canvas>

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Canvas panel doesn’t really support that.

    It’s very basic – it just allows you to position children absolutely by using Top, Bottom, Left and Right, and it always gives them just the space they need.

    So usually you would use a Grid with just 1 column and 1 row instead.

    You can however bind the width and height of the DockPanel to the width and height of the Canvas. That way the DockPanel will always fill the Canvas.

    <DockPanel VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
            Margin="0,0,0,0" x:Name="ReferenceInfo" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="0"
            Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=InfoCanvas}"
            Height="{Binding ActualHeight, ElementName=InfoCanvas}">
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