WPF Textbox text align question

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How i can align text in textbox or richtextbox like this:

word:             1
word2:            2
word3:            3
word4:            4
superlongword:    5
otherword:        6
abc:              7

i tried to add tabulation symbol after word, but this is working well, if all words have same length.
any ideas?

Posted 25-Feb-15 5:16am

Updated 25-Feb-15 5:17am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Feb-15 11:28am

Of course using tab is totally wrong. Wasn't it apparent from the very beginning? You can to use selection formatting.
—SA

Arlert 25-Feb-15 11:30am

in richtextbox i will be able to apply alignment for whole paragraph, but with textbox such operation can not be done, no?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Feb-15 11:40am

Of course it can be done. Have you seen Solution 1?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-02-25T05:35:00

Please see my comment to the question.

This is how you can do it in XAML: http://www.wpf-tutorial.com/rich-text-controls/richtextbox-control[^].

To format some part of the document on the fly, you need to obtain some text range, System.Windows.Documents.TextRange: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.documents.textrange%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

As you can see from the inheritance diagram, it can be, for example, selection.

Now you can apply some formatting for the range (which can be applicable or not; in your case, it has to be some block element, such as a paragraph). You will find the way to do it here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.documents.textrange.applypropertyvalue%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

Look at the code sample at the end.

—SA