Grid.SetColumnSpan Method
Sets the value of the ColumnSpan attached property to a given UIElement.
Assembly: PresentationFramework (in PresentationFramework.dll)
Parameters
- element
- Type: System.Windows.UIElement
The element on which to set the ColumnSpan attached property.
- value
- Type: System.Int32
The property value to set.
This example shows how to use the get and set methods that are defined on Grid to position child elements.
The following example defines a parent Grid element (grid1) that has three columns and three rows. A child Rectangle element (rect1) is added to the Grid in column position zero, row position zero. Button elements represent methods that can be called to reposition the Rectangle element within the Grid. When a user clicks a button, the related method is activated.
<StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Orientation="Vertical">
<Button Click="setCol0">Move Rectangle to Column 0</Button>
<Button Click="setCol1">Move Rectangle to Column 1</Button>
<Button Click="setCol2" Margin="0,0,0,10">Move Rectangle to Column 2</Button>
<Button Click="setRow0">Move Rectangle to Row 0</Button>
<Button Click="setRow1">Move Rectangle to Row 1</Button>
<Button Click="setRow2" Margin="0,0,0,10">Move Rectangle to Row 2</Button>
<Button Click="setColspan">Span All Columns</Button>
<Button Click="setRowspan">Span All Rows</Button>
<Button Click="clearAll">Clear All</Button>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
<Grid DockPanel.Dock="Top" Margin="0,10,15,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Name="grid1" ShowGridLines="True" Width="400" Height="400" Background="LightSteelBlue">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Rectangle Name="rect1" Fill="Silver" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0"/>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Margin="5">Column 0, Row 0</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Margin="5">Column 1, Row 0</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="0" Margin="5">Column 2, Row 0</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" Margin="5">Column 0, Row 1</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="5">Column 1, Row 1</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="1" Margin="5">Column 2, Row 1</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="2" Margin="5">Column 0, Row 2</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" Margin="5">Column 1, Row 2</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="15" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="2" Margin="5">Column 2, Row 2</TextBlock>
</Grid>
The following code-behind example handles the methods that the button Click events raise. The example writes these method calls to TextBlock elements that use related get methods to output the new property values as strings.
More Code
| How to: Create a Grid Element | The following example shows how to create and use an instance of Grid by using either Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) or code. This example uses three ColumnDefinition objects and three RowDefinition objects to create a grid that has nine cells, such as in a worksheet. Each cell contains a TextBlock element that represents data, and the top row contains a TextBlock with the ColumnSpan property applied. To show the boundaries of each cell, the ShowGridLines property is enabled. |
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