TextBox Properties
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The TextBox type exposes the following members.
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AcceptsReturn | Gets or sets the value that determines whether the text box allows and displays the newline or return characters. |
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ActualHeight | Gets the rendered height of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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ActualWidth | Gets the rendered width of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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AllowDrop | Gets or sets a value that determines whether this UIElement can be a drop target for purposes of drag-and-drop operations. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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Background | (Inherited from Control.) |
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BaselineOffset | Gets a value by which each line of text is offset from a baseline. |
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BorderBrush | (Inherited from Control.) |
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BorderThickness | (Inherited from Control.) |
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CacheMode | Gets or sets a value that indicates that rendered content should be cached when possible. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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CaretBrush | Gets or sets the brush that is used to render the vertical bar that indicates the insertion point. |
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CharacterSpacing | (Inherited from Control.) |
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Clip | Gets or sets the Geometry used to define the outline of the contents of a UIElement. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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Cursor | Infrastructure. Gets or sets the cursor image that displays while the pointer is over a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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DataContext | Gets or sets the data context for a FrameworkElement when it participates in data binding. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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DefaultStyleKey | (Inherited from Control.) |
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DesiredSize | Gets the size that this UIElement computed during the measure pass of the layout process. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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Dispatcher | Gets the Dispatcher this object is associated with. (Inherited from DependencyObject.) |
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FlowDirection | Gets or sets the direction that text and other user interface elements flow within any parent element that controls their layout. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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FontFamily | (Inherited from Control.) |
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FontSize | (Inherited from Control.) |
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FontSource | Gets or sets the font source that is applied to the TextBox for rendering content. |
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FontStretch | (Inherited from Control.) |
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FontStyle | (Inherited from Control.) |
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FontWeight | (Inherited from Control.) |
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Foreground | (Inherited from Control.) |
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Height | Gets or sets the suggested height of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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HorizontalAlignment | Gets or sets the horizontal alignment characteristics that are applied to a FrameworkElement when it is composed in a layout parent, such as a panel or items control. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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HorizontalContentAlignment | (Inherited from Control.) |
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HorizontalScrollBarVisibility | Gets or sets the visibility of the horizontal scroll bar. |
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InputScope | Gets or sets the context for input used by this TextBox. |
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IsEnabled | (Inherited from Control.) |
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IsHitTestVisible | Gets or sets whether the contained area of this UIElement can return true values for hit testing. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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IsReadOnly | Gets or sets the value that determines if the user can change the text in the text box. |
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IsTabStop | (Inherited from Control.) |
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Language | Gets or sets localization/globalization language information that applies to a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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LineHeight | Gets or sets the height of each line of content. |
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LineStackingStrategy | Gets or sets a value that indicates how a line box is determined for each line of text in the TextBox. |
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Margin | Gets or sets the outer margin of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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MaxHeight | Gets or sets the maximum height constraint of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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MaxLength | Gets or sets the value that determines the maximum number of characters allowed for user input. |
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MaxWidth | Gets or sets the maximum width constraint of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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MinHeight | Gets or sets the minimum height constraint of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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MinWidth | Gets or sets the minimum width constraint of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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Name | Gets or sets the identifying name of the object. When a XAML processor creates the object tree from XAML markup, run-time code can refer to the XAML-declared object by this name. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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Opacity | Gets or sets the degree of the object's opacity. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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OpacityMask | Gets or sets the brush used to alter the opacity of regions of this object. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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Padding | (Inherited from Control.) |
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Parent | Gets the parent object of this FrameworkElement in the object tree. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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Projection | Gets or sets the perspective projection (3-D effect) to apply when rendering this UIElement. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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RenderSize | Gets the final render size of a UIElement. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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RenderTransform | Gets or sets transform information that affects the rendering position of a UIElement. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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RenderTransformOrigin | Gets or sets the origin point of any possible render transform declared by RenderTransform, relative to the bounds of the UIElement. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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Resources | Gets the locally defined resource dictionary. In XAML, you can establish resource items as child object elements of a frameworkElement.Resources property element, through XAML implicit collection syntax. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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SelectedText | Gets or sets the content of the current selection in the text box. |
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SelectionBackground | Gets or sets the brush that fills the background of the selected text. |
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SelectionForeground | Gets or sets the brush used for the selected text in the text box. |
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SelectionLength | Gets or sets the number of characters in the current selection in the text box. |
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SelectionStart | Gets or sets the starting position of the text selected in the text box. |
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Style | Gets or sets an instance Style that is applied for this object during rendering. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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TabIndex | (Inherited from Control.) |
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TabNavigation | (Inherited from Control.) |
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Tag | Gets or sets an arbitrary object value that can be used to store custom information about this object. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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Template | (Inherited from Control.) |
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Text | Gets or sets the text contents of the text box. |
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TextAlignment | Gets or sets how the text should be aligned in the text box. |
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TextWrapping | Gets or sets how line breaking occurs if a line of text extends beyond the available width of the text box. |
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Triggers | Gets the collection of triggers for animations that are defined for a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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UseLayoutRounding | Gets or sets a value that determines whether rendering for the object and its visual subtree should use rounding behavior that aligns rendering to whole pixels. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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UseOptimizedManipulationRouting | Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the system should handle input events or whether the FrameworkElement should handle input events. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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VerticalAlignment | Gets or sets the vertical alignment characteristics that are applied to a FrameworkElement when it is composed in a parent object such as a panel or items control. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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VerticalContentAlignment | (Inherited from Control.) |
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VerticalScrollBarVisibility | Gets or sets the visibility of the vertical scroll bar. |
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Visibility | Gets or sets the visibility of a UIElement. A UIElement that is not visible does not render and does not communicate its desired size to layout. (Inherited from UIElement.) |
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Width | Gets or sets the width of a FrameworkElement. (Inherited from FrameworkElement.) |
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