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• Ganesh Jagdale

  Posted on May 3, 2011 (permalink)

  HI Telerik,
   Is There any control or way available to show Text in Text Block as "This is text..." if text which is binding is bigger than width if TextBlock.
  I have implemented the same one but it works for small text with following way..
  
  

   

   

  while (textBlockElement.ActualWidth > maxWidth && truncateText.Length > 0)

   

   

  {

   

  truncateText = truncateText.Substring(0, truncateText.Length - 1);

   

  textBlockElement.Text = truncateText +

   

  "...";

   

   

  }

  
  in

  TextBlock_SizeChanged Event..
  
  Please let me know ur team have other solution ..
  
  Thanks In Advance..
  
  Thanks,
   Ganesh

    
  

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• Alex Fidanov Alex Fidanov

  Posted on May 5, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Ganesh Jagdale,
  
  The TextBlock has this functionality out of the box. What you need is to set the TextWrapping property and a Width of the TextBlock so that it can wrap the text:
  

  <TextBlock Text="123456890" Width="50" TextTrimming="WordEllipsis" />
  
  Regards,
  Alex Fidanov
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• Ganesh Jagdale

  Posted on May 5, 2011 (permalink)

  Thanks a lot for your reply.
   that's very good property available. 

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• Jason

  Posted on Nov 14, 2011 (permalink)

  the problem with switching over to TextBlock is that if you are using Telerik Themes, the TextBlock is not themed correctly.
  
  can you tell me how to carry Telerik's themes to the TextBlock control?
  
  Regards,
  Jason
  

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• Petar Mladenov Petar Mladenov

  Posted on Nov 17, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Jason,

   Telerik themes can be applied to non telerik controls but not all controls have defined styles in our themes. You can use our styles with: Button, ScrollBar, ScrollViewer, ListBox, CheckBox and RadioButton. I think there are no other non-Telerik styles.
  We haven't created themes for TextBlock or Label since they can be fully customized through Properties (Foreground, FontSize etc.) and their default values usually fit well with our themes.
  
  

  All the best,
  Petar Mladenov
  the Telerik team

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