Format paragraphs

You can align text relative to the bounding boxes of the objects that contain the text in your Blend for Visual Studio 2012 application, for text that is contained in TextBox, TextBlock, or RichTextBox objects. Specifically, you can align text to the left, right, or center, or you can justify the text to the left and right edges of the bounding box that contains the text. For RichTextBox objects, you can set the alignment of individual paragraphs separately, and you can also control the line height and paragraph spacing of text in the objects.

To align text in a TextBox, TextBlock, or RichTextBox object

1. Select the TextBox, TextBlock, or RichTextBox object that contains the text that you want to align, by using either the Selection tool  or the Direct Selection tool .

2. In the Properties panel, under Text, click Paragraph .

3. Set the Text Alignment  the way that you want it.

Note

If you are in text-editing mode for a TextBox or TextBlock object, the Text Alignment option applies to all of the content contained in the object. Press the ESC key to exit text-editing mode and to enable Text Alignment for content selected inside a TextBox or TextBlock object.

Format a paragraph in a RichTextBox

Note

The RichTextBox object in Microsoft Silverlight does not support modifying line height or paragraph spacing for text in a RichTextBox object.

To format a paragraph in a RichTextBox object

1. Select the RichTextBox object that contains the text that you want to format, by using either the Selection tool  or the Direct Selection tool .

2. To format individual paragraphs separately in the text object, right-click the object, click Edit Text, and then click to position your cursor anywhere in the paragraph that you want to format. Otherwise, to uniformly format all paragraphs in the object, continue to the next step.

3. In the Properties panel, under Text, click the Paragraph tab .

   If you are working in a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) project, do one or more of the following:

   • Set the Line Height property  as you want to set the amount of space between every pair of lines in the paragraph or paragraphs.

   • Set the Paragraph SpacingBefore property  to set the amount of space that comes before the paragraph or paragraphs.

   • Set the Paragraph Spacing After property  to set the amount of space that follows the paragraph or paragraphs.

   • Set the Text Alignment  the way that you want it.

   If you are working in a Silverlight project, set the Text Alignment  the way that you want it.