Text vertical alignment in WPF TextBlock

wpf vertical-alignment textblock
Ant picture Ant · Sep 29, 2009 · Viewed 230.9k times · Source

How do I assign vertical center alignment to the text inside a TextBlock? I found TextAlignment property but it is for horizontal text alignment. How do I do it for vertical text alignment?

Answer

Orion Edwards picture Orion Edwards · Apr 14, 2010

A Textblock itself can't do vertical alignment

The best way to do this that I've found is to put the textblock inside a border, so the border does the alignment for you.

<Border BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Height="50">
    <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Some Text" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Border>

Note: This is functionally equivalent to using a grid, it just depends how you want the controls to fit in with the rest of your layout as to which one is more suitable

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