Question

Note: I read over this question and its answers: HorizontalAlignment=Stretch, MaxWidth, and Left aligned at the same time?. None of them do what I am looking for.

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I have the following xaml:

<Grid ShowGridLines="True" x:Name="_testGrid" Height="30" >
  <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"></ColumnDefinition>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"></ColumnDefinition>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"></ColumnDefinition>
  </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

  <TextBox Text="Text 1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
          MaxWidth="75" Margin="5"/>
  <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Text="Text 2" Margin="5"                 
       HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" MaxWidth="130"/>
  <TextBox Grid.Column="2"  Text="Text 3" Margin="5"               
       HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" MaxWidth="100"/>
</Grid>

It produces this:

This setup has great resizing support. If the window shrinks then the TextBoxes will shrink too.

The only problem is I need them left aligned:

All the solutions I see end up chopping off part of the textbox (not shrinking it).

Is what I am looking for possible with WPF?

Answer 1

Found an answer here.

It works only with a grid. Here is the updated xaml:

<Grid ShowGridLines="True" x:Name="_testGrid" Height="30" >
  <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <ColumnDefinition MaxWidth="75" Width="*"/>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="0.01*" />
    <ColumnDefinition MaxWidth="130" Width="*"/>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="0.01*" />
    <ColumnDefinition MaxWidth="100" Width="*"/>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="0.01*" />
  </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

  <TextBox Grid.Column="0" Text="Text 1" Margin="5"/>
  <TextBox Grid.Column="2" Text="Text 2" Margin="5"  />
  <TextBox Grid.Column="4" Text="Text 3" Margin="5" />
</Grid>