Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed

Chapter 4. Text

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Customizing Text Display
• Creating Rich Text Content
• Using Custom Fonts

Silverlight 1.0 contains two elements for displaying text (and no elements for editing text). The element that is almost always used to display text is called TextBlock, which has a property called Text that can be set to whatever you want to display. (The other element, Glyphs, is for advanced scenarios covered later in this chapter.) For example, the following TextBlock is rendered in Figure 4.1:

<TextBlock Text="Text in a TextBlock"/>

Figure 4.1 A TextBlock containing simple text.

You could alternatively express the preceding TextBlock ...