Question

I have a Grid with some elements inside:

<Grid>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

    <TextBlock Text="SomeText" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" />
    <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" />

    <TextBlock Text="SomeText" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" />
    <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" />

    <TextBlock Text="SomeText" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="2" />
    <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" />
</Grid>

The problem is that it looks tightly:

what i have

Margin property solves this problem, but I should to set this property to each element inside a grid. It is a hard way.

I want to obtain something like this setting margin property only once, but not for each element:

what i want to obtain

Answer 1

You can put the Margin into an implicit Style in the Grid.Resources.

e.g.

<Style x:Key="MarginStyle" TargetType="FrameworkElement">
     <Setter Property="Margin" Value="5"/>
</Style>
<Style TargetType="TextBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource MarginStyle}"/>
<Style TargetType="TextBlock" BasedOn="{StaticResource MarginStyle}"/>

---

You can also use an ItemsControl to apply a common style.

e.g.

<ItemsControl>
  <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    <ItemsPanelTemplate>
      <!-- Panel without children here -->
      <Grid>
        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
          <ColumnDefinition/>
          <ColumnDefinition/>
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
          <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
          <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
      </Grid>
    </ItemsPanelTemplate>
  </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
  <ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="FrameworkElement">
      <Setter Property="Margin" Value="5"/>
    </Style>
  </ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
  <!-- Children here -->
  <Label Grid.Row="0" Content="Field 1: "/>
  <Label Grid.Row="1" Content="Field 2: "/>
  <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0"/>
  <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"/>
</ItemsControl>