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HTML-like Text Formatting

Updated over 6 months ago

Introduction

Telerik UI for WinForms provides an advanced text styling mechanism, which can be applied to all controls in the suite, because it enhances one of the smallest elements in the Telerik Presentation Framework - the TextPrimitive. The new rich text formatting mechanism uses plain HTML tags to display formatted text such as font style, font color, font size, and simple layouts. The Html-like formatting the text must start with an tag; use <size=[+|-]value> to set font size and to create a new line feed. To make the font bold, underlined, and italic use the corresponding opening and closing tags. Font family is set through <font=Family>. 

Supported Tags 

TagEnd TagDescription
<font>N/ASpecifies the font family
<color>N/ASpecifies the text color.
<size>N/ASpecifies the font size.
<b></b>Defines bold text.
<i></i>Defines italic text.
<u></u>Defines underlined text.
<br>N/ASingle line break.

Example

The following code snippet will produce the result shown in the screen-shot below:

Setting HTML-like text

C#
this.radButton1.Text = "<html><size=12>This is RadLabel <br><b><font=Arial>Arial, Bold</b><br><i><color= Red><font=Times New Roman>Times, Italic <u>Underline</u><br><size=9>Size = 9<br><color= 0, 0, 255>Sample Text";

WinForms RadButtons Setting HTML-like Text