Question

I have a simple Windows Forms application with a tabControl. I have 3 panels on the tabControl, each having 5 buttons. The text on first set of buttons is hard-coded, but the next set populates when you click one from the first group, and then the same thing happens again for the last group when you click one of the buttons from the second group. In the [Design] view I manually set the TextAlign property of each button to MiddleCenter. However, when I run the application the text on the middle set of buttons is never centered. It is always TopLeft aligned. I’ve tried changing the font size and even explicitly setting the TextAlign property every time I set button text programmatically, as follows:

private void setButtons(List<string> labels, Button[] buttons)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < buttons.Count(); i++)
        {
            if (i < labels.Count)
            {
                buttons[i].Text = labels.ElementAt(i);
                buttons[i].TextAlign = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;
                buttons[i].Enabled = true;
            }
            else
            {
                buttons[i].Text = "";
                buttons[i].Enabled = false;
            }
        }
    }

This image shows the result:

Does anyone have any ideas for what I’m missing?

Answer 1

Trim text which you are assign to button. Also you can refer label by index, without calling ElementAt

private void setButtons(List<string> labels, Button[] buttons)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < buttons.Count(); i++)
    {
        Button button = buttons[i];

        if (i < labels.Count)
        {
            button.Text = labels[i].Trim(); // trim text here
            // button.TextAlign = ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;
            button.Enabled = true;
        }
        else
        {
            button.Text = "";
            button.Enabled = false;
        }
    }
}