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Shimmy Weitzhandler
Shimmy Weitzhandler

Reputation: 104692

Padding on StackPanel?

I am trying to set padding of a StackPanel but there ain't such property. I tried StackPanel.Border, but there is no such property either.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 80

Views: 61897

Answers (5)

Oliver
Oliver

Reputation: 36393

Or you could do something similar to TiM:

<Border>
    <StackPanel Margin="10">
        ...
    </StackPanel>
</Border>

Upvotes: 7

Microshine
Microshine

Reputation: 799

This is a variant of padding for elements of StackPanel

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Grid.Row="2">
    <StackPanel.Resources>
         <Style x:Key="StackPanelPadding" TargetType="Control">
            <Setter Property="Margin" Value="5,0,0,0"/>
            <Setter Property="Height" Value="40"/>
         </Style>
         <Style BasedOn="{StaticResource StackPanelPadding}" TargetType="Button"/>
    </StackPanel.Resources>
    <Button/>
    <Button/>
</StackPanel>

Upvotes: 2

Tim Swena
Tim Swena

Reputation: 14776

You could put a Border around the StackPanel and set a padding on that. I end up doing this a lot, since there are many UIElements that do not have a padding property.

<Border Padding="10">
    <StackPanel>
        <!--...-->
    </StackPanel>
</Border>

(Note: all FrameworkElements have a Margin property, which will space the element, but not include the margin width as part of the ActualWidth).

If you want to space the items inside a StackPanel, you'll want to add a margin to each child as Rob said.

Upvotes: 136

George Birbilis
George Birbilis

Reputation: 709

if you mean you want to space out child elements of the StackPanel (which doesn't have a Padding property), see: How do I space out the child elements of a StackPanel?

Upvotes: 5

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 1328

You'll probably want to add margin to the items in the panel instead. You'll get the same result, just have to approach it backward.

Upvotes: 2

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