In a C# form, I have a panel anchored all sides, and inside, a textbox, anchored top/left/right.
When text gets loaded into the textbox, i want it to auto expand itself vertically so that I don't need to scroll the textbox (scroll the panel at most, if there is more text that doesn't fit the panel). is there any way to do this with a textbox? (i'm not constrained to use this control so if there's another control that fits the description, feel free to mention it)
The current selected answer does NOT handle lines with no spaces such as "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj"x1000 (think about what would happen if someone pasted a URL)
This code solves that problem:
private void txtBody_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// amount of padding to add
const int padding = 3;
// get number of lines (first line is 0, so add 1)
int numLines = this.txtBody.GetLineFromCharIndex(this.txtBody.TextLength) + 1;
// get border thickness
int border = this.txtBody.Height - this.txtBody.ClientSize.Height;
// set height (height of one line * number of lines + spacing)
this.txtBody.Height = this.txtBody.Font.Height * numLines + padding + border;
}
I'll assume this is a multi-line text box and that you'll allow it to grow vertically. This code worked well:
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) {
Size sz = new Size(textBox1.ClientSize.Width, int.MaxValue);
TextFormatFlags flags = TextFormatFlags.WordBreak;
int padding = 3;
int borders = textBox1.Height - textBox1.ClientSize.Height;
sz = TextRenderer.MeasureText(textBox1.Text, textBox1.Font, sz, flags);
int h = sz.Height + borders + padding;
if (textBox1.Top + h > this.ClientSize.Height - 10) {
h = this.ClientSize.Height - 10 - textBox1.Top;
}
textBox1.Height = h;
}
You ought to do something reasonable when the text box is empty, like setting the MinimumSize property.
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