Text vertical alignment in WPF TextBlock

Question

How to make vertical center alignment to the text inside a TextBlock? I found TextAlignment property. But it is for horizontal text alignment. How to do it for vertical text alignment.

Answer 1

The TextBlock doesn't support vertical text alignment.

I work around this by wrapping the text block with a Grid and setting HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" and VerticalAlignment="Center".

Like this:

    <Grid>
        <TextBlock 
            HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
            VerticalAlignment="Center"
            Text="Your text" />
    </Grid>

Answer 2

I'm a bit confused.

Does TextBlock.VerticalAlignment (technically it's FrameworkElement.VerticalAlignment) solve your problem?

Or are you trying to accomplish something else?

Answer 3

I guess there is no out-of-the-box solution.
I reported this issue to Microsoft, please vote: https://connect.microsoft.com/WPF/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=523432

Answer 4

A Textblock itself can't do vertical alignment

The best way to do this that I've found is to put the textblock inside a border, so the border does the alignment for you.

<Border BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Height="50">
    <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Some Text" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Border>

Note: This is functionally equivalent to using a grid, it just depends how you want the controls to fit in with the rest of your layout as to which one is more suitable

Answer 5

For me, VerticalAlignment="Center" fixes this problem.
This could be because the TextBlock is wrapped in a grid, but then so is practically everything in wpf.