I have a StackPanel control in my WPF project, and it is in column 0 row 2 of a Grid. How can I autofit the StackPanel size to the size of that grid cell? Setting the StackPanel width and height to "auto" will just size it to its contents. I could explicitly set its width and height to numerical values, but I was wondering if there was a cleaner, more accurate way. Thank you.
Relevant XAML:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="421*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Content="{StaticResource LoginWindow_Title}" Style="{StaticResource TitleH1}" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/>
<Label Content="{StaticResource LoginWindow_Subtitle}" Style="{StaticResource TitleH2}" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="2" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" Grid.Row="2" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Label Content="Log in"/>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</Grid>
The difference is the way they contain elements. Elements in Grid are stored in matrix form or you can say tabular form. You can define columndefinitions and rowdefinitions and you can access and store element at a particular row and column. But in stackpanel, elements are stored in stack format .
StackPanel vs. For example, the order of child elements can affect their size in a DockPanel but not in a StackPanel. This is because StackPanel measures in the direction of stacking at PositiveInfinity, whereas DockPanel measures only the available size. The following example demonstrates this key difference.
A StackPanel allows you to stack elements in a specified direction. By using properties that are defined on StackPanel, content can flow both vertically, which is the default setting, or horizontally.
In XAML a Grid is made up of a series of rows and columns. By specifying the row and column of an element within a Grid, you can place and space other elements within a user interface. Rows and columns are defined with the RowDefinition and ColumnDefinition elements.
Your StackPanel
is not in Grid
, it`s inside Border
. So for it to take all available space you can set horizontal and vertical alignment to Stretch
both for it and its parent Border
:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="421*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Border HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" Grid.Row="2">
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Label Content="Log in"/>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</Grid>
Even so, like others mentioned, some other panel almost definetely will be better in this case.
The answer is always the same... don't use a StackPanel
for layout purposes. They are primarily used to arrange UI elements that are very unlikely to change size. Even if you resized the StackPanel
to the correct size, it would not help because a StackPanel
does not rearrange or resize it's content items. If you want this functionality, you'll have to use one of the other Panel
controls like a Grid
instead.
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