Insert text and alignment

[Rieni De Rijke]

I want to insert some text, like in a usual letter: the date and "Dear John,"...

I tried this:

editor.Insert(DateTime.Now.Date.ToShortDateString());
editor.InsertLineBreak();
editor.Insert("Dear John,");

...and it works fine!

Now I want to have my date at the right and John at the left.
I tried this:

editor.Insert(DateTime.Now.Date.ToShortDateString());
editor.ChangeTextAlignment(RadTextAlignment.Right);
editor.InsertLineBreak();
editor.Insert("Dear John,");
editor.ChangeTextAlignment(RadTextAlignment.Left);

But it did not work out.
I searched the web for a little bit help about ChangeTextAlignment, but could not find something usefull.
I guess I have to use paragraphs, selection...?

[Andrew]

Hi Rieni De Rijke,

You are using the right method here - ChangeTextAlignment(RadTextAlignment alignment). However it changes the alignment of the corresponding paragraph. So, if you want the date to be aligned right and "Dear, John..." to be aligned left, you should put them in separate paragraphs, as a line break just moves the caret to the next line, but not to the next paragraph. Actually, all you need to do is replace the editor.InsertLineBreak() with

this.radRichTextBox1.Insert(Environment.NewLine);

and everything should be fine.

If you have any other questions, fell free to contact us.

Greetings,
Andrew
the Telerik team

[Rieni De Rijke]

That's it!
Thank you very much!