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Marta
Marta

Reputation: 2947

Bold text in strings

I have a DataTable with columns typeof(string). I am adding strings to this table and I need to have some of text in bold. My string looks like that:

row["UserData"] = user.Name + "\n" + user.Description + "\n" + user.Number + "\t" + user.Date;

Is it possible to make user.Name in this code bold?

I am using .NET 4.0 and WPF.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 14368

Answers (5)

Peter Arandorenko
Peter Arandorenko

Reputation: 196

Bolding text in DataGrid using DataGridRow: WPF DataGrid Example

<Style x:Key="RowStyle" TargetType="{x:Type dg:DataGridRow}">
    <Setter Property="ValidationErrorTemplate">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate>
                <Grid>
                    <Ellipse Width="12" Height="12"
                        Fill="Red" Stroke="Black"
                        StrokeThickness="0.5"/>
                    <TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" Padding="4,0,0,0"
                        Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Foreground="White" Text="!"
                        ToolTip="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource
                                 FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type dg:DataGridRow}},
                                 Path=(Validation.Errors)[0].ErrorContent}"/>
                </Grid>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

This link also shows how to bold a StackPanel TextBlock.

Upvotes: 2

DarkenedPhoenix
DarkenedPhoenix

Reputation: 51

Where is this being shown?

Is this a plain text concatenated string you are trying to make bold, is it HTML, or are you wanting the user.Name portion of the code in the IDE to display as bold?

If it's plain text, there isn't much you can do. Displaying the string in some email clients will show as bold if you surround it with asterisks (*).

For HTML, you can surround the user.Name with either CSS or a strong/bold tag:

row["UserData"] = "<strong>" + user.Name + </strong>" + "\n" + user.Description + "\n" + user.Number + "\t"  + user.Date;

or

row["UserData"] = "<span style='font-weight: bold;'>" + user.Name + "</span>" + "\n" + user.Description + "\n" + user.Number + "\t" + user.Date;

Upvotes: 1

dthorpe
dthorpe

Reputation: 36072

DataTable is just a data store - it doesn't control the display of the data. When you bind a ListView or other WPF control to the DataTable, you can style the columns of the control to display one of the columns text in bold.

Upvotes: 3

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 10113

I'm 99% sure you can only style columns of a DataTable, not the data within them.

Upvotes: 1

brunnerh
brunnerh

Reputation: 184376

Strings are just text, if you want to format text you have multiple ways of doing so but i do not know of anything "native". e.g. use XML markup around user.Name to encode the formatting as text, that then can be used by some control which displays it to adjust the rendering.

Upvotes: 4

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