Question

I would like to make a WPF text box which is big enough to show 3 lines of text. So far, I have this code:

  System.Windows.Controls.TextBox myTextbox = new TextBox()
                {
                    AcceptsReturn = true,
                    MinLines = 3,
                    MaxLines = 3,
                    TextWrapping = TextWrapping.Wrap,
                    FontFamily = new FontFamily("Microsoft Sans Serif"),
                    FontSize = 11,
                };

However, when myTextBox is laid out there is no guarantee that it gets enough height to show 3 lines of text. Ideally, I would like to specify the FontSize to be “so small that myTextBox has room for 3 lines of text, and no smaller”. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Well, I ended up simply putting the TextBox into a ScrollViewer, like this:

System.Windows.Controls.ScrollViewer myScrollViewer = 
    new ScrollViewer(){Content = myTextbox};
// Now place the ScrollViewer where the TextBox was before.