Question

Is there anyway to control what controls (buttons, group boxes, ectect) will overlap others? For example…

I add a button1 to the form, then button2. But, (for some reason) I want button1 to overlap button2 if they were to ever overlap.

I have googled this and found nothing, and if I found something chances it would bring me here. I know this is probably easy to do anyways.

Thanks for your help and time.

Im trying to avoid a copy paste nightmare via adding buttons. And I’m new to Visual c#.

Answer 1

If you’re using the Visual Studio windows form designer, you can right click GUI elements and select either Bring to front or Send to back. Or you can also use the Format menu entries:

Another option would be to do it by code; assuming you have two buttons (called buttonOK and button Cancel) you can control which goes above by giving it a higher TabIndex.

buttonOK.TabIndex = 0;
buttonCancel.TabIndex = 1;