TextBox- Display Whole Text

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I create programatically some textboxes, and I want to put some text in them. But they don't display the whole text, I have to click and drag to left to show all text..

Isn't there an option, maybe "AutoSize", "AutoFit" or something like that?

Thank you!

Posted 7-May-13 23:21pm

Luci C

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Solution 1

No - there is no standard way to change either the size of the text box, or the font size to fit the text into the display.
However, if you make it multi line and enable ScrollBars it can do something like what you want.

If you must have a re-sizing control, then I suspect you will have to write it yourself.

Posted 7-May-13 23:27pm

OriginalGriff

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in text box properties change the text mode(single line->multiline)

Posted 7-May-13 23:42pm

venkatesh ekkaluri

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-07T23:34:00

You can use TextRenderer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textrenderer.aspx[^] to determine what size the text box needs to be in the TextChanged event of the textbox - or better yet do as OriginalGriff suggests and make your own re-sizing custom control inheriting from System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Example

C#

private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    TextBox t = (TextBox)sender;
    Size s = TextRenderer.MeasureText(t.Text, t.Font);
    t.Width = s.Width;
}