WPF click on label change checkbox isChecked property

wpf checkbox label ischecked
sandkasten picture sandkasten · Feb 26, 2013 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I’m new to WPF and try (in my opinion) an easy task but I didn’t get it. Even Google won’t help me, or I asked the wrong question.

I have a checkbox and a label; I wish that a click on the label change the isChecked property of the checkbox.

I want to do this completely in XAML with no code behind, because I wish to keep the code behind file clean of unnecessary code. Please don’t discuss on this point. I know it’s a single line of code doing this in code behind!

Working with event setter on the label doesn’t solve the problem because you can only set the handler (which is in code behind of course). Using a storyboard doesn’t help because there is no way to check the actual value of the property.

Does anyone have a good hint? Maybe I overlooked something. Please provide some code snippet for the solution.

Answer

mikelt21 picture mikelt21 · Mar 22, 2017

You can also do this:

<CheckBox>
    <Label Content="Your text here"/>
</CheckBox>

One limitation though is that the text will have to be on the right side of the checkbox.

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