Text alignment in a WPF DataGrid

Question

How can I align the column data to center in a WPF DataGrid?

Solution 1

It's hard to say without knowing specifics, but here's a DataGridTextColumn that is centered:

<wpf:DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Binding="{Binding Name}" IsReadOnly="True">
    <wpf:DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>
        <Style>
            <Setter Property="FrameworkElement.HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
        </Style>
    </wpf:DataGridTextColumn.CellStyle>
</wpf:DataGridTextColumn>

Solution 2

If you are using DataGridTextColumn you can use the following code snippet:

<Style TargetType="DataGridCell">
     <Style.Setters>
            <Setter Property="TextBlock.TextAlignment" Value="Center" />
     </Style.Setters>
</Style>

Solution 3

I started with huttelihut's solution. Unfortunately, that didn't work for me just yet. I tweaked his answer and came up with this (solution is to align the text to the right):

<Resources>
    <Style x:Key="RightAligned" TargetType="TextBlock">
        <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Right"/>
    </Style>
</Resources>

As you can see, I applied the style to a TextBlock, not the DataGridCell.

And then I had to set the Element style, not the Cell style.

ElementStyle="{StaticResource RightAligned}"

Solution 4

+1 for Kent Boogaart. I ended up doing this, which makes the code slightly less cluttered (and enables me to use the alignment on several columns):

<Resources>
      <Style x:Key="NameCellStyle" TargetType="DataGridCell">
                <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center" />
      </Style>
</Resources>


<DataGrid.Columns>                           
   <DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" CellStyle="{StaticResource NameCellStyle}" Binding="{Binding Name}"/>                            
    // .. other columns        
</DataGrid.Columns>

Solution 5

Here's @MohammedAFadil's XAML answer, converted to C# code behind:

var MyStyle = new Style(typeof(DataGridCell)) {
    Setters = {
        new Setter(TextBlock.TextAlignmentProperty, TextAlignment.Center)
    }
};

To apply the Style, set the CellStyle property of the DataGrid, e.g.

var MyGrid = new DataGrid() {
    CellStyle = MyStyle
};

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