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How to: Manipulate Flow Content Elements through the Inlines Property

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These examples demonstrate some of the more common operations that can be performed on inline flow content elements (and containers of such elements, such as TextBlock) through the Inlines property. This property is used to add and remove items from InlineCollection. Flow content elements that feature an Inlines property include:

These examples happen to use Span as the flow content element, but these techniques are applicable to all elements or controls that host an InlineCollection collection.

Create a new Span object

The following example creates a new Span object, and then uses the Add method to add two text runs as content children of the Span.

Span spanx = new Span();
spanx.Inlines.Add(new Run("A bit of text content..."));
spanx.Inlines.Add(new Run("A bit more text content..."));

Dim spanx As New Span()
spanx.Inlines.Add(New Run("A bit of text content..."))
spanx.Inlines.Add(New Run("A bit more text content..."))

Create a new Run element

The following example creates a new Run element and inserts it at the beginning of the Span.

Run runx = new Run("Text to insert...");
spanx.Inlines.InsertBefore(spanx.Inlines.FirstInline, runx);

Dim runx As New Run("Text to insert...")
spanx.Inlines.InsertBefore(spanx.Inlines.FirstInline, runx)

Get the top-level Inline elements in the Span

The following example gets the number of top-level Inline elements contained in the Span.

int countTopLevelInlines = spanx.Inlines.Count;

Dim countTopLevelInlines As Integer = spanx.Inlines.Count

Delete the last Inline element in the Span

The following example deletes the last Inline element in the Span.

spanx.Inlines.Remove(spanx.Inlines.LastInline);

spanx.Inlines.Remove(spanx.Inlines.LastInline)

Clear all the Inline element content from the Span

The following example clears all of the contents (Inline elements) from the Span.

spanx.Inlines.Clear();

spanx.Inlines.Clear()

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