How to remove additional padding from a WPF TextBlock?

Question

By default a WPF TextBlock seems to have additional top and bottom padding applied. I wish this wasn't so.

• I've tried setting negative padding, but got an exception:

  0,-10,0,0' is not a valid value for property 'Padding'.

• I've tried setting the LineHeight property, to no apparent effect.

This is how the TextBlock looks in Blend. I've marked the problematic portion with maroon red.

Solution 1

Some research and H.B. guided me to the right answer, which is setting the following properties:

<TextBlock LineStackingStrategy="BlockLineHeight"
           LineHeight="20"/> <!-- Or some other value you fancy. --> 

Solution 2

This is probably part of the font which is Segoe UI by default, try Segoe instead for example. (You cannot assign negative padding but you could assign negative Margins, e.g.: Margin="0,-3,0,0")

Solution 3

This space is not padding, but part of the font, reserved for accents above and below characters.

The accepted answer makes the line height smaller than the font height.

Comments

[Josh Noe]

This might be better as a comment

[Khawaja Asim]

what if want to remove from the bottom too?