Silverlight Controls and Silverlight Toolkit

Re: Word wrap in a datagrid

tcook815 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:42:26 GMT

This works out how I want it to. Thank you everyone for your help!

Re: Word wrap in a datagrid

yifung — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:18:03 GMT

You don't need to convert everything to TextBlocks. You can get to the TextWrapping property by setting an ElementStyle on the column. There's also EditingElementStyle if you need to do something similar with the editing element.

        <data:DataGrid x:Name="dataGrid" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
            <data:DataGrid.Columns>
                <data:DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding Name}">
                    <data:DataGridTextColumn.ElementStyle>
                        <Style TargetType="TextBlock">
                            <Setter Property="TextWrapping" Value="Wrap" />
                        </Style>
                    </data:DataGridTextColumn.ElementStyle>
                </data:DataGridTextColumn>
            </data:DataGrid.Columns>
        </data:DataGrid>

Re: Word wrap in a datagrid

tcook815 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:06:14 GMT

Hmm... so I have to go in and turn everything into text boxes... welp, I have a lot of datagrids I have to go and do this to, but if this is the only way to get wrapping, then alright. Thank you for your help!

Re: Word wrap in a datagrid

gunjanshah21 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:40:46 GMT

DataGridTextColumn currently doesn't support TextWrapping. You could use a TextBlock in a DataGridTemplateColumn instead to achieve this:

<data:DataGridTemplateColumn MinWidth="200" MaxWidth="400" Header="MyLongStringTemplateColumn">
                    <data:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
                        <DataTemplate>
                            <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding LongString}"/>
                        </DataTemplate>
                    </data:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
                </data:DataGridTemplateColumn>

Gunjan [MSFT]

Word wrap in a datagrid

tcook815 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:49:30 GMT

I have a Silverlight datagrid that completely works and everything. My only question I never could find an answer for. I just want the cells to have word wrap. I created my columns like this

<data:DataGridTextColumn Header="Text of Message" Width="Auto" MinWidth="200" MaxWidth="400" Binding="{Binding Message}" IsReadOnly="False"/>

The text inside of the cells is longer than 400, so it dissappears. Is there a way to get the word wrap? Thank you anyone who can help.