Silverlight - TEXT formatting or HTML tags support

05-10-2007 12:11 PM |

Hi,

I wondered if with Silverlight is possible complex text formating in TextBlock object?

for example "justify text", bullets, etc?

Also can I show HTML formatted text in TextBlock object? CSS styles?

I just read http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404774.aspx and not found any info for solve this.

Any help is appreciate

Thank you

Re: Silverlight - TEXT formatting or HTML tags support

05-10-2007 3:47 PM |

No, TextBlock does not support all the rich formatting options that HTML has. We only support font styling (bold, italic, stretch) options at this time (assuming you are using a font that supports styling) and underline.

-mark
Program Manager
Microsoft
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Re: Silverlight - TEXT formatting or HTML tags support

05-11-2007 3:21 AM |

Hmmm... doesn't this just echoes one of the posts I did back on the old forums? Mark, I think the team needs to look into some way to display simple HTML formatted text.... granted onvce you have SOME features in everyone is gonna ask for more.

 But anyway this is one place which Silverlight loses out to Flash cause Flash's text elements are able to do simple HTML parsing, personally I'm not greedy I just want them standard B,I,U tags for formatting and if possible an A tag that'd raise events when clicked.

Re: Silverlight - TEXT formatting or HTML tags support

05-11-2007 5:28 AM |

Thank you for your answer.

I have one more question :

can we make in TextBlock object (or any other Silverlight object) text align right/center/"justify text"?