WPF Statusbar, stretch textblock to take as much space as possible

statusbar, wpf, xaml

Solution

You had set the `StatusBarItem` `HorizontalAlignment="Left"` when it should be `Stretch`, same for the `HorizontalContentAlignment`. Also would suggest setting `Margin="0"` on the border.

This is what I did so it will work for me:

<StatusBarItem HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
               HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch">
    <Border BorderThickness="1"
            BorderBrush="Black"
            Margin="0"
            Padding="5 0 5 0"
            Background="White">
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Message, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
                   Foreground="{Binding TextColorMessage}"
                   Background="White"/>
    </Border>
</StatusBarItem>

Problem

I created my own simple statusbarcontrol with 3 TextBlocks. Now I would like that the first Textblock takes as much space as it has available. That I don't seem to get done.. Now it only takes the space needed to display the text. XAML: ``` <StatusBar Background="{StaticResource GradientBrush}"> <StatusBar.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> </Grid> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </StatusBar.ItemsPanel> <StatusBarItem HorizontalAlignment="Left" HorizontalContentAlignment="Right"> <Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Black" Padding="5 0 5 0" Background="White"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Message, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" Foreground="{Binding TextColorMessage}" Background="White" /> </Border> </StatusBarItem> <Separator Grid.Column="1" /> <StatusBarItem Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Right"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=DatabaseName, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" /> </StatusBarItem> <Separator Grid.Column="3" /> <StatusBarItem Grid.Column="4" HorizontalAlignment="Right"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=ComputerName}" /> </StatusBarItem> ```

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