Question

I wasn’t able to find an answer anywhere about this seemingly simple topic: is it possible to align text of a single subitem in a WinForms ListView control?

If so, how?

I would like to have text in the same column aligned differently.

Answer 1

For future reference, here’s how I solved it:

// Make owner-drawn to be able to give different alignments to single subitems lvResult.OwnerDraw = true; ...  // Handle DrawSubItem event private void lvResult_DrawSubItem(object sender, DrawListViewSubItemEventArgs e) {     // This is the default text alignment     TextFormatFlags flags = TextFormatFlags.Left;      // Align text on the right for the subitems after row 11 in the      // first column     if (e.ColumnIndex == 0 && e.Item.Index > 11)     {         flags = TextFormatFlags.Right;     }      e.DrawText(flags); }  // Handle DrawColumnHeader event private void lvResult_DrawColumnHeader(object sender, DrawListViewColumnHeaderEventArgs e) {     // Draw the column header normally     e.DrawDefault = true;     e.DrawBackground();     e.DrawText(); } 

It was necessary to handle the DrawColumnHeader, otherwise no text or column separators would be drawn.