Clicking HyperLinks in a RichTextBox without holding down CTRL - WPF

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John Noonan picture John Noonan · Apr 17, 2009 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

I have a WPF RichTextBox with isReadOnly set to True. I would like users to be able to click on HyperLinks contained within the RichTextBox, without them having to hold down Ctrl.

The Click event on the HyperLink doesn't seem to fire unless Ctrl is held-down, so I'm unsure of how to proceed.

Answer

JHubbard80 picture JHubbard80 · May 27, 2011

I found a solution. Set IsDocumentEnabled to "True" and set IsReadOnly to "True". 

<RichTextBox IsReadOnly="True" IsDocumentEnabled="True" />

Once I did this, the mouse would turn into a 'hand' when I hover over a text displayed within a HyperLink tag. Clicking without holding control will fire the 'Click' event.

I am using WPF from .NET 4. I do not know if earlier versions of .NET do not function as I describe above.

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