Question

I have a grid with 3 rows, in my top row (200px height) i want a text on a blue background. How do i specify that my textblock should fill the space? when i add it it only fits the space the text occupy. Tried with a ViewBox, but that resized the text also, i want that to be a fixed size…

anyone?

Answer 1

This code is an example of size autofill for 3 different controls in given grid in XAML. Autofill is default, so you don’t need to set anything additional, just make sure margin is not set. I tested this solution in MS Expression Blend and it works OK.

    <Grid Height="400" Width="250" Canvas.Left="100" Canvas.Top="20">
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="200*"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="100*"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="100*"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <Button Content="Button"/>
        <CheckBox Content="CheckBox" Grid.Row="2"/>
        <TextBlock Grid.Row="1" Text="Test Text block" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
    </Grid>