How to get the current style

[Chris]

I have a need to get the current style of a document. The GetCurrentSpanStyle method of RadRichTextBox is protected, so I cannot use this. The only way that I have been able to get the current style is to create a override of RichTextBoxCommandBase for this purpose.

public class GetCurrentSpanStyleCommand : RichTextBoxCommandBase
{
    public GetCurrentSpanStyleCommand(RadRichTextBox editor) : base(editor)
    {
    }

    protected override void ExecuteOverride(object parameter)
    {

    }

    public Span ExecuteGetCurrentSpanStyle()
    {
        return base.GetCurrentSpanStyle();
    }
}

Is there a better way to do this?

[Tanya]

Hello Chris,

The document could have many styles applied on its different document elements and I am not sure what exactly you need to access. I will list several of the options that might help you achieve the desired goal.

- The default style of the document you could obtain through the Style property of RadDocument:

StyleDefinition defaultDocumentStyle = this.radRichTextBox.Document.Style;

- You could check the style of the Span in which the caret is currently positioned:

StyleDefinition currentSpanStyle = this.radRichTextBox.Document.CaretPosition.GetCurrentSpanBox().AssociatedDocumentElement.Style;

- All the styles that are used in the document could be accessed through the StyleRepository. The next snippet demonstrates how you could obtain the StyleDefinition for the Normal style:

StyleDefinition normalStyle = this.radRichTextBox.Document.StyleRepository[RadDocumentDefaultStyles.NormalStyleName];

More information on working with styles in RadRichTextBox you could find in our documentation.

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,
Tanya
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