[W8.1]How to vertically center the text in a XALM TextBox?

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Hello,

I am developing an universal Windows 8.1 App, primary for Windows Phone 8.1. There are different screen sizes and resolutions of Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones, so I am scaling the controls (TextBoxes, Images, Buttons etc.) automatically by using Grids. This works great!

I am using XALM without Silverlight!

However, I have a problem with TextBoxes:
How shall I vertically center the text in a TextBox?
I can not use top-padding because the height of my TextBox depends on the screen resolution of the smartphone.

"VerticalContentAlignment" does not work in this case!

The style

XML

<scrollviewer ...="" verticalalignment="Center" />

as a custom control template does not work, too.

Thanks for any advices!

Best wishes,
Miroslav Stimac

Posted 21-Aug-15 9:49am

Dr Miroslav Stimac

Updated 21-Aug-15 9:54am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-15 16:25pm

There are no such elements and attributes as "scrollviewer" and "verticalalignment"; everything is case-sensitive. Why scroll viewer? how is it related to alignment of text.
The text is aligned vertically by default, unless you use uneven padding on purpose. Maybe you just want dynamic padding, depending on screen size?
—SA

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 21-Aug-15 16:29pm

Then just don't, TextBoxes are meant to be used for getting the input. If user inputs everything only in one line, let him. There is no need for the text to be in center; otherwise you will end up ruining entire UX. The alignment is already done, underground, so that you just have to create a control and everything else will be handled by the OS.

Plus, follow Sergey's comment and keep everything case-sensitive otherwise application won't compile.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-08-21T10:31:00

Please see my comment to the question. So, maybe all you need is to use Padding with Thickness in device-independent units. Please see: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.textblock.padding%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

For some background on device-independent pixels, please see: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff684173%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

Please let me know if your problem is different.

—SA