Label wrapping with StackLayout

Question

I'm using Xamarin and creating my view with XAML and I cannot for the life of me get this label to wrap the way I want it to. If the label gets to the edge of the screen, I want it to wrap like this...

Right now it is looking like this...

Here is my code:

<StackLayout Orientation="Vertical" HorizontalOptions="StartAndExpand" BindingContext="{Binding CurrentProviderDetails}" Padding="20,20,20,20" >
  <Grid>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
      <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
      <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<!--Certification Board-->
  <StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalOptions="StartAndExpand" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" >
    <Label Text="Certification Board: " FontSize="13" HorizontalOptions="Fill" VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand" />
    <Label Text="{Binding Certification}" VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand"  HorizontalOptions="Center" Font="17" LineBreakMode="WordWrap"/>
  </StackLayout>
 </Grid>
</StackLayout>

This doesn't need to be in a grid; this was just the method I was trying for now. My only requirement is that 'Certification Board' is a label, and I have to pass in a value that word wraps when it gets to the end of the screen. Any help would be awesome, Thanks!

Solution 1

Put a LineBreakMode="NoWrap" tag in your labels. This way you can avoid the wrap.

But if you don't have enough space, the word will be cut.

Solution 2

You can achieve the desired look by combining both of the Labels contained in your horizontally aligned StackLayout into a single Label and setting LineBreakMode="WordWrap". XAML has a great feature known as StringFormat. You can use this to prepend the static "Certification Board:" text to the bound Certification property. Your Label should look like this:

<Label Text="{Binding Certification, StringFormat='Board Certification:{0:F0}'}" LineBreakMode="WordWrap"/>

Comments

[Chris W.]

Is there any particular reason you have a Grid, embedded in a StackLayout, then with a StackLayout embedded within it? If not, Ditch all the StackLayouts, put two columns in your Grid, Column 0 Width Auto, Column 1 Width * with the 2 labels in their respective Columns and nowrap on your "certification board"

[stepheaw]

So easy to get carried away with these xml layouts, thank you