Setting GridViewCell background and HorizontalAlignment

[Ivano]

I'm trying to set both background an HorizontalAlignment on GridViewCells of a GridViewDataColumn at run time as follows:

Binding backgroundBinding = new Binding("Item.Format[" + column.UniqueName + "].Background");
Binding horizontalAlignmentBinding  = new Binding("Item.Format[" + column.UniqueName + "].HorizontalAlignment");

Style cellStyle = new Style(typeof(GridViewCell));
cellStyle.Setters.Add(new Setter(GridViewCell.BackgroundProperty, backgroundBinding));
cellStyle.Setters.Add(new Setter(GridViewCell.HorizontalAlignmentProperty, horizontalAlignmentBinding));
column.CellStyle = cellStyle

It works;  the point is that background color do not fill whole cell area but only a around cell content (see attached picture).
Same issue for VerticalAlignment.

Sincerely
Ivano

[Milan]

Hi Ivano,

I guess you should leave HorizontalAlignment to Stretch and bind the HorizontalContentAlignment to be able to control the alignment of the data that is shown within a cell. 

Sincerely yours,
Milan
the Telerik team