How can I left-align the header text in just one listview column?

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I have a ListView with three columns. The first two have widths that don't change much (always contain the same number of characters). I can fix the widths of these columns if necessary.

The third column contains notes that can be any length. I would like this column to stretch to fill available space, to display as much of the note as possible. I can do this by giving the column a width of Auto, but the header text is always centred and so disappears off the right-hand edge.

The problem is made worse because this ListView is the centre (of three) panels made using a Grid, and I would like this central panel to be the one that grows and shrinks as the window size is changed.

How can I do this?

What I have tried:

I have tried following various examples but none seems to work.

This is my current code, which doesn't work, but I don't understand why:

<ListView Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" SelectionMode="Single" ItemsSource="{Binding EnquiryJobsFiltered}">
	<ListView.View>
		<GridView>
			<GridViewColumn Header="Enquiry/Job" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding EnquiryJobNumberAsString}"/>
			<GridViewColumn Header="Progress" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Progress}"/>
			<GridViewColumn>
				<GridViewColumn.HeaderTemplate>
					<DataTemplate>
						<TextBlock Text="Description" TextAlignment="Left"/>
					</DataTemplate>
				</GridViewColumn.HeaderTemplate>
				<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
					<DataTemplate>
						<TextBlock Text="{Binding Description}" TextAlignment="Left"/>
					</DataTemplate>
				</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
			</GridViewColumn>
		</GridView>
	</ListView.View>
</ListView>

Posted 22-Jun-17 2:00am

Patrick Skelton

Updated 22-Jun-17 8:56am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-22T08:56:00

Solution 1

It should be as simple as adding a HeaderContainerStyle and setting the HorizontalContentAlignment to Left:

<GridViewColumn Header="Description" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Description}">
    <GridViewColumn.HeaderContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type GridViewColumnHeader}">
            <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Left" />
        </Style>
    </GridViewColumn.HeaderContainerStyle>
</GridViewColumn>

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Posted 22-Jun-17 8:56am

Richard Deeming

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Patrick Skelton 23-Jun-17 4:39am

Thank you, Richard! Your phrase 'It should be as simple as...' brought a smile to my face. Even after a year, some aspects of XAML still seem like a black art to me, and judging by the number of wild goose chases I follow on the internet while looking for solutions, it seems I am not alone. I still seem often to take an approach of randomly setting properties, just to see if I can get anything to move on the screen. Anyway, thanks again.