Set TextBlock to be entirely bold when DataBound in WPF

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robintw picture robintw · Feb 3, 2009 · Viewed 47.1k times · Source

I have a databound TextBlock control (which is being used inside a DataTemplate to display items in a ListBox) and I want to make all the text in the control bold. I can't seem to find a property in the properties explorer to set the whole text to bold, and all I can find online is the use of the <Bold> tag inside the TextBlock, but I can't put that in as the data is coming directly from the data source.

There must be a way to do this - but how? I'm very inexperienced in WPF so I don't really know where to look.

Answer

Matt Hamilton picture Matt Hamilton · Feb 3, 2009

Am I missing something, or do you just need to set the FontWeight property to "Bold"?

<TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding Foo}" />

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