Silverlight 3: ListBox DataTemplate HorizontalAlignment

Question

I have a ListBox with it's ItemTemplate bound to a DataTemplate. My problem is I cannot get the elements in the template to stretch to the full width of the ListBox.

<ListBox x:Name="listPeople" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
    Margin="0,0,0,0" Background="{x:Null}" SelectionMode="Extended" Grid.Row="1" 
    ItemTemplate="{StaticResource PersonViewModel.BrowserDataTemplate}" 
    ItemsSource="{Binding Mode=OneWay, Path=SearchResults}" >
</ListBox>

<DataTemplate x:Key="PersonViewModel.BrowserDataTemplate">
   <ListBoxItem HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
     <Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="5,5,5,5">
       <Border Opacity=".1" x:Name="itemBorder"  Background="#FF000000"   
         HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" 
         CornerRadius="5,5,5,5" MinWidth="100" Height="50"/>
      </Grid>
   </ListBoxItem>
</DataTemplate>

As you can see, I have added a border within the grid to indicate the width of the template. My goal is to see this border expand to the full width of the listbox. Currently its width is determined by its contents or MinWidth, which is the only thing at the moment keeping it visible at all.

Answer 1

I spent an hour trying to resolve this one. Very very frustrasting. You don't have to override the entire default style for the ListBoxItem. I couldn't get this to work. In the end I resolved the issue by simply overriding just the HorizontalContentAlignment property in my ListBox.ItemContainerStyle section e.g:

            <ListBox x:Name="ClassList" ItemsSource="{Binding LineClasses}"
                     ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
                     SelectionMode="Extended"
                     ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch"
                     HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Loaded="ClassList_Loaded"
                     VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Row="0">
                <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
                    <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
                        <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"></Setter>
                    </Style>
                </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
                    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>

                    <DataTemplate>
                        <Border BorderBrush="Black" CornerRadius="3" Background="#FFE88D34"
                            BorderThickness="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" >
                            <Grid Background="Transparent" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" >
                                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                    <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
                                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                <TextBlock 
                                    Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
                                    Margin="2"                                   
                                    FontSize="10"
                                    Text="{Binding DisplayClassNm}"/>
                            </Grid>

                        </Border>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </ListBox.ItemTemplate>

This worked a treat for me.

Myles