How to: Format Characters in a RichTextBox Control

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This example writes a sentence, which contains three words in three different font styles (bold, italic, and underlined), to an existing RichTextBox control.

Example

richTextBox1.Rtf = @"{\rtf1\ansi This text is in \b bold\b0, " +
@"this is in \i italics\i0, " +
@"and this is \ul underlined\ul0.}";

Compiling the Code

This example requires:

  • A RichTextBox control named richTextBox1. Insert the code into the Form1_Load method.

Robust Programming

The rich text format is very flexible, but any errors in the format lead to errors in the displayed text.

See Also

Concepts

Designing a User Interface in Visual C#

Other Resources

Text Controls

Visual C# Guided Tour

Change History

Date

History

Reason

September 2008

Added instructions about where to insert the code.

Customer feedback.