Why can't I alter the height of a TextBox control in the windows forms design view?

Question

I have a new project. I drop a textbox control on it. I open up the properties window, and I can change the height and hit enter or click out of the box and it will update the designer, but when I try to change the height it resets back to the default value. Why is that? I had the same issue with a Label, but I turned off AutoSize and it allowed me to modify the values. Is there some property I can turn off to be able to modify the Height of a textbox in the design view? I'm using Visual Studio 2010 sp1. I had the same issue in Visual Studio 2008. I am new to Windows forms.

Solution 1

You need to set TextBox.Multiline property as true .

TextBox1.Multiline = true;

Solution 2

Checking Multiline will allow to resize but it also allows enter(return) key in the textbox.
The Height of a non-Multiline TextBox is fixed by the size of the Font.
Reduce to textbox Font size, the TextBox will resize automatically.

Comments

[Brook]

Make the textbox multiline and it will allow you to set the height.

[awright18]

Yeah that makes sense. I dind't realize it was actually bound to the Font-size though. If i change the font-size it alters the textbox size which makes perfect sense. I just didn't get it right off the bat. Thanks for your help!

[nick]

What if I want to have padding inside?

[bonny]

Padding like font padding? Like the space between the textbox line and first character?

[nick]

The space between the TextBox border and the text itself, I think it's not possible right (unless you work it around with a panel or smth)?

[bonny]

@nick Try this.Link

[nick]

Yeah I saw that, but it's got to be so haaard? Why couldn't they just add a TextBox padding property? :(

[bonny]

Ya, there is nothing easy making font padding in the textbox. However, you can try making a user control and inherit a textbox and make your own textbox. That's hard too but if your pad length is like space then you can design and use your own textbox easily.

[Peter Duniho]

This answer offers nothing additional. It is virtually copy/paste from the accepted answer, and is not useful at all.