Automatic vertical scroll bar in WPF TextBlock?

Question

I have a TextBlock in WPF. I write many lines to it, far exceeding its vertical height. I expected a vertical scroll bar to appear automatically when that happens, but it didn't. I tried to look for a scroll bar property in the Properties pane, but could not find one.

How can I make vertical scroll bar created automatically for my TextBlock once its contents exceed its height?

Clarification: I would rather do it from the designer and not by directly writing to the XAML.

Solution 1

Wrap it in a scroll viewer:

<ScrollViewer>
    <TextBlock />
</ScrollViewer>

NOTE this answer applies to a TextBlock (a read-only text element) as asked for in the original question.

If you want to show scroll bars in a TextBox (an editable text element) then use the ScrollViewer attached properties:

<TextBox ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
         ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" />

Valid values for these two properties are Disabled, Auto, Hidden and Visible.

Solution 2

can use the following now:

<TextBox Name="myTextBox" 
         ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
         ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
         ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True">SOME TEXT
</TextBox>

Solution 3

Something better would be:

<Grid Width="Your-specified-value" >
    <ScrollViewer>
         <TextBlock Width="Auto" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
    </ScrollViewer>
</Grid>

This makes sure that the text in your textblock does not overflow and overlap the elements below the textblock as may be the case if you do not use the grid. That happened to me when I tried other solutions even though the textblock was already in a grid with other elements. Keep in mind that the width of the textblock should be Auto and you should specify the desired with in the Grid element. I did this in my code and it works beautifully. HTH.

Solution 4

<ScrollViewer MaxHeight="50"  
              Width="Auto" 
              HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
              VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
     <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=}" 
                Style="{StaticResource TextStyle_Data}" 
                TextWrapping="Wrap" />
</ScrollViewer>

I am doing this in another way by putting MaxHeight in ScrollViewer.

Just Adjust the MaxHeight to show more or fewer lines of text. Easy.

Solution 5

<ScrollViewer Height="239" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
    <TextBox AcceptsReturn="True" TextWrapping="Wrap" LineHeight="10" />
</ScrollViewer>

This is way to use the scrolling TextBox in XAML and use it as a text area.

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