In WPF, the
TextBlock is used to display simple text. We can apply several formatting to the text like Bold, Italics or Underline to name a few.
But it is a little known fact that it is possible to display several differently formatted text in a
SINGLE TextBlock!!!
for e.g. you can make a
TextBlock display the following text
This is a
simple multiformat text!
This can be achieved by using multiple
Run.
Normally when you assign a text to the
TextBlock, it creates a single
Run which encapsulates the text assigned.
In order to add multiformatted text to a TextBlock, you have to create several Runs and add them to the
TextBlock's
Inlines property.
Here is an example
Run run1 = new Run("This is ");
Run run2 = new Run("bold");
run2.FontWeight = FontWeights.Bold;
Run run3 = new Run(" and ");
Run run4 = new Run("italic");
run4.FontStyle = FontStyles.Italic;
Run run5 = new Run("text.");
myTextBlock.Inlines.Add(run1);
myTextBlock.Inlines.Add(run2);
myTextBlock.Inlines.Add(run3);
myTextBlock.Inlines.Add(run4);
myTextBlock.Inlines.Add(run5);
This will set the myTextBlock as
This is
bold and
italic text.
More information on TextBlock can be found
here[
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