How to center text in a specific column in WPF ListView?

Question

I tried this and also HorizontalAlignment, instead of TextAlignment but they still show up aligned to left.

<Window x:Class="EditorWindow.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="800" Width="600">
    <Grid>
        <ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Effects}">
            <ListView.View>
                <GridView>
                    <GridViewColumn Width="100" Header="Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}"  />
                    <GridViewColumn Width="100" Header="Type" >
                        <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate >
                            <DataTemplate>
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Type}" TextAlignment="Center"/>
                            </DataTemplate>
                        </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                    </GridViewColumn>
                    <GridViewColumn Width="100" Header="Opacity" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Opacity}" />
                </GridView>
            </ListView.View>
        </ListView>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Solution

Try to set HorizontalContentAlignment to Stretch for the ItemContainerStyle. Then it should work with either TextAlignment="Center" or HorizontalAlignment="Center" for the TextBlock

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Effects}">
    <ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ListViewItem">
            <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/>
        </Style>
    </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    <!--...-->
</ListView>

Comments

[ShadowScripter]

Brilliant. Could someone explain why you have to do this in order for it to work?

[Gaurav123]

How to do the same for specific columns only

[Gaurav123]

I used <GridViewColumn Header="Exact Date" Width="100"> <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate > <DataTemplate> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=ExactDate, StringFormat='MM/dd/yyyy'}" TextAlignment="Right" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/> </DataTemplate> </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate> </GridViewColumn> but it did not work

[Filip]

don't forget to remove the DisplayMemberBinding attribute off the column, or the CellTemplate won't get applied at all