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TextBlock.Text Property

.NET Framework 4.5

Gets or sets the text contents of a TextBlock.

Namespace: System.Windows.Controls
Assembly: PresentationFramework (in PresentationFramework.dll)
XMLNS for XAML: http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation, http://schemas.microsoft.com/netfx/2007/xaml/presentation

Syntax

C++

[LocalizabilityAttribute(LocalizationCategory.Text)]
public string Text { get; set; }

XAML Attribute Usage

<object Text="string" .../>

Property Value

Type: System.String
The text contents of this TextBlock. Note that all non-text content is stripped out, resulting in a plain text representation of the TextBlock contents. The default is String.Empty.

Dependency Property Information

Identifier field	TextProperty
Metadata properties set to true	AffectsMeasure, AffectsRender

Remarks

Use this property when you want to show plain text in a TextBlock. When you need to format the text, add Inline objects to the Inlines property.

Examples

The following example shows how to set the Text attribute of a TextBlock element.

XAML

<TextBlock Text="The text contents of this TextBlock element."/>

Alternately, the contents of a text run may simply be contained by TextBlock element tags.

The following example shows how to set the Text property programmatically.

TextBlock textBlock = new TextBlock();
textBlock.Text = "The text contents of this TextBlock.";

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Platforms

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

TextBlock Class

System.Windows.Controls Namespace

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