WPF - How to right align a textblock inside a horizontally oriented stackpanel?

Question

This should be so simple - I've been hitting my head against my desk for so long trying to make a seemlingly simple task work (makes me feel like WPF is un-intuitive or buggy)...

In any case, I've got a Stackpanel which is set to horizontal orientation. Inside it I've got two TextBlocks. I want the 2nd one to display it's text to the right.

How do I accomplish it?

Doing all this reminds me why I walked away from Silverlight. :p

Answer 1

You need to use a DockPanel if you don't want all elements to be stacked like the StackPanel do. To cause the second TextBlock to right-align, you can add an extra dummy TextBlock to fill the area between them:

    <DockPanel>
        <TextBlock>Left text</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Right">Right text</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock />
    </DockPanel>

Or you can use the TextAlignment attribute:

    <DockPanel>
        <TextBlock>Left text</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock TextAlignment="Right">Right text</TextBlock>
    </DockPanel>