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Dinesh
Dinesh

Reputation: 2066

Multiline text as the button label in Windows Forms

Basically, I am creating a button in an oval shape. But my button label is too long to display in one line, so I wanted to split it into multiple lines so that the oval button looks good.

How do I enable word wrap on a button?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 65891

Answers (7)

Khalid
Khalid

Reputation: 1

You just need to insert a line break (i.e. \n) in the button text.

Example:

Button1.AutoSize = true;

Button1.Text = "This is \n The Button Text";

Upvotes: 0

Dan Mirescu
Dan Mirescu

Reputation: 821

If you want to set a button's label to multi-line text inside the VS designer, you can click on the "down arrow" at the right of the property field and then you are able to enter multiple lines of text.

VS text multiline property panel

I tried this in VS 2015.

Upvotes: 40

Vincent
Vincent

Reputation: 179

You can create custom Button with one additional property (say, Label) which converts "\n" occurrence into "real" newline (because VS designer cannot do it already 10 years):

public string Label
{
    get { return (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Text) ? Text : Text.Replace("\n", @"\n")); }
    set {
        Text = (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value) ? value : value.Replace(@"\n", "\n"));
    }
}

Once you created such class, your SuperButton will be visible in Toolbox at Project page, so you don't loose visual way of design.

Upvotes: 0

Ram
Ram

Reputation: 11644

There are two options:

  1. If you are creating a custom control, then place a label control on it with the Autosize = true option. And adjust its size as per the buttons size.
  2. Add a new line wherever you want (a bit crude).

Upvotes: 0

Giorgi
Giorgi

Reputation: 30873

Just add a newline in the text at the place where it should split.

Upvotes: 3

Rox
Rox

Reputation: 2023

Set the label text on form load and add Environment.Newline as the newline string, like this:

btnOK.Text = "OK" + Environment.NewLine + "true";

Upvotes: 31

0x49D1
0x49D1

Reputation: 8694

Try to add "\n" to button's Text property in the places you want to wrap.

Upvotes: 1

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