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Align bottoms of text in controls

Asked 2010-01-10T03:09:20.133
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The following snippet:

<Window x:Class="Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <Grid>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"
                    VerticalAlignment="Center"
                    HorizontalAlignment="Center">            
            <Label Content="Name:"/>
            <Label Content="Itzhak Perlman" FontSize="44"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Renders the following:
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Is there any way I can set in the Labels' styles so that their text bottoms should be aligned?
I have the same question with TextBlocks as well.

NOTE: since I've been struggling with this issue for a while, please post only certains answers that you know that work.
I already tried: VerticalAlignment, VerticalContentAlignment, Padding, Margin. Is there anything else I am not aware of?

I've read this post, but it doesn't talk about a scenario of different font size.

UPDATE: The problem is, that even Padding is set to 0 there is still an indeterminate space around the font, within the ContentPresenter area. this space varies on the font size. If I could control this space I would be in a better situation.

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I actually found a simple answer based on Aviad's.

I created a converter that contains Aviad's function that accepts the element itself and returns calculated Thickness.

Then I set up

<Style TargetType="TextBlock">
    <Setter Property="Margin" 
        Value="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Converter={StaticResource converters:TextAlignmentMarginConverter}}" />
</Style>

The disadvantage is that this is obviously occupies the original Margin property, since a TextBlock doesn't have a template so we can't set it via TemplateBinding.

answered 2010-01-11T00:56:34.417

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