XAML RichTextBox Code Example

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The following code snippet creates RichTextBox in XAML.

<RichTextBox></RichTextBox>

The following code snippet sets the name, height and width of a RichTextBox control. The code also sets the horizontal alignment to left and the vertical alignment to top.

<RichTextBox Margin="10,10,0,13" Name="RichTextBox1" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                 VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="500" Height="300" />

The following code snippet adds several items to a RichTextBox control.

<RichTextBox Margin="10,10,0,13" Name="RichTextBox1" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
             VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="500" Height="300">
    <FlowDocument>
        <Paragraph>
            I am a flow document. Would you like to edit me?
            <Bold>Go ahead.</Bold>
        </Paragraph>

        <Paragraph Foreground="Blue">
            I am blue I am blue I am blue.
        </Paragraph>
    </FlowDocument>
</RichTextBox>

A RichTextBox control comes with spell check functionality out-of-the-box. By setting the SpellCheck.IsEnabled property to true enables spell checking in a RichTextBox.

SpellCheck.IsEnabled="True"

You can set this in code as follows:

mcRTB.SpellCheck.IsEnabled = true;