TextBlock.FontFamily property

Gets or sets the preferred top-level font family for the text content in this element.

Syntax

public FontFamily FontFamily { get; set; }

<TextBlock FontFamily="fontFamily" />
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<TextBlock FontFamily="fontFamilyName[,fallbackFontFamilyName]" />
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<TextBlock FontFamily="fontURI#fontFamily" />

XAML Values

fontFamily

A single font family name, for example "Verdana".

fontFamilyName[,fallbackFontFamilyName]

A primary font family choice then one or more fallback font family choices, for example "Arial Unicode MS, Arial".

fontURI#fontFamily

Used for non-default fonts. Specifies the resource location in the assembly for a font file, and a font family within that font. For information on this usage, see FontFamily.

Property value

Type: FontFamily

A FontFamily object that specifies the preferred font family, or a primary preferred font family with one or more fallback font families. For information about defaults, see the FontFamily class topic.

Requirements

See also

TextBlock

Build date: 3/12/2013