Centering controls within a form in NET Winforms

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I m trying to center a fixed size control within a form   Out of interest  is there a non-idiotic way of doing this  What I really want is something analogous to the text-align css property   At the moment  I m setting the padding property of the surrounding form to a suitable size and setting the Dock property of the control to fill

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Since you don t state if the form can resize or not there is an easy way if you don t care about resizing  if you do care  go with Mitch Wheats solution    Select the control -  Format  menu option  -  Center in Window -  Horizontally or Vertically

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Since you don t state if the form can resize or not there is an easy way if you don t care about resizing  if you do care  go with Mitch Wheats solution    Select the control -  Format  menu option  -  Center in Window -  Horizontally or Vertically

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You could achieve this with the use of anchors  Or more precisely the non use of them    Controls are anchored by default to the top left of the form which means when the form size will be changed  their distance from the top left side of the form will remain constant  If you change the control anchor to bottom left  then the control will keep the same distance from the bottom and left sides of the form when the form if resized   Turning off the anchor in a direction will keep the control centered in that direction when resizing   NOTE   Turning off anchoring via the properties window in VS2015 may require entering None  None  instead of default Top Left

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To center Button in panel o in other container follow this step    At design time set the position   Go to properties Anchor of the button and set this value as the follow image

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It involves eyeballing it  well I suppose you could get out a calculator and calculate  but just insert said control on the form and then remove any anchoring  anchor   None

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You could achieve this with the use of anchors  Or more precisely the non use of them    Controls are anchored by default to the top left of the form which means when the form size will be changed  their distance from the top left side of the form will remain constant  If you change the control anchor to bottom left  then the control will keep the same distance from the bottom and left sides of the form when the form if resized   Turning off the anchor in a direction will keep the control centered in that direction when resizing   NOTE   Turning off anchoring via the properties window in VS2015 may require entering None  None  instead of default Top Left

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It involves eyeballing it  well I suppose you could get out a calculator and calculate  but just insert said control on the form and then remove any anchoring  anchor   None

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myControl Left    this ClientSize Width - myControl Width    2   myControl Top    this ClientSize Height - myControl Height    2

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You could achieve this with the use of anchors  Or more precisely the non use of them    Controls are anchored by default to the top left of the form which means when the form size will be changed  their distance from the top left side of the form will remain constant  If you change the control anchor to bottom left  then the control will keep the same distance from the bottom and left sides of the form when the form if resized   Turning off the anchor in a direction will keep the control centered in that direction when resizing   NOTE   Turning off anchoring via the properties window in VS2015 may require entering None  None  instead of default Top Left

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You can put the control you want to center inside a Panel and set the left and right padding values to something larger than the default  As long as they are equal and your control is anchored to the sides of the Panel  then it will appear centered in that Panel  Then you can anchor the container Panel to its parent as needed

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I found a great way to do this and it will work with multiple controls   Add a TableLayout with 3 columns   Make the center column an absolute size  however much room you need    Set the two outside columns to 100    Add a Panel to the center column and add any controls you need and place them where you want   That center panel will now remain centered in your form

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you can put all your controls to panel and then write a code to move your panel to center of your form   panelMain Location        new Point ClientSize Width   2 - panelMain Size Width   2                 ClientSize Height   2 - panelMain Size Height   2    panelMain Anchor   AnchorStyles None

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I found a great way to do this and it will work with multiple controls   Add a TableLayout with 3 columns   Make the center column an absolute size  however much room you need    Set the two outside columns to 100    Add a Panel to the center column and add any controls you need and place them where you want   That center panel will now remain centered in your form

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It involves eyeballing it  well I suppose you could get out a calculator and calculate  but just insert said control on the form and then remove any anchoring  anchor   None

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You can put the control you want to center inside a Panel and set the left and right padding values to something larger than the default  As long as they are equal and your control is anchored to the sides of the Panel  then it will appear centered in that Panel  Then you can anchor the container Panel to its parent as needed

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It involves eyeballing it  well I suppose you could get out a calculator and calculate  but just insert said control on the form and then remove any anchoring  anchor   None

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you can put all your controls to panel and then write a code to move your panel to center of your form   panelMain Location        new Point ClientSize Width   2 - panelMain Size Width   2                 ClientSize Height   2 - panelMain Size Height   2    panelMain Anchor   AnchorStyles None

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In addition  if you want to align it to the center of another control     The  ctrlParent  is the one on which you want to align  ctrlToCenter      ctrlParent  can be your  form name  or any other control such as  grid name  and etc  ctrlToCenter Parent   ctrlParent   ctrlToCenter Left    ctrlToCenter Parent Width - ctrlToCenter Width    2  ctrlToCenter Top    ctrlToCenter Parent Height - ctrlToCenter Height    2

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To center Button in panel o in other container follow this step    At design time set the position   Go to properties Anchor of the button and set this value as the follow image

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myControl Left    this ClientSize Width - myControl Width    2   myControl Top    this ClientSize Height - myControl Height    2

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Since you don t state if the form can resize or not there is an easy way if you don t care about resizing  if you do care  go with Mitch Wheats solution    Select the control -  Format  menu option  -  Center in Window -  Horizontally or Vertically

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In addition  if you want to align it to the center of another control     The  ctrlParent  is the one on which you want to align  ctrlToCenter      ctrlParent  can be your  form name  or any other control such as  grid name  and etc  ctrlToCenter Parent   ctrlParent   ctrlToCenter Left    ctrlToCenter Parent Width - ctrlToCenter Width    2  ctrlToCenter Top    ctrlToCenter Parent Height - ctrlToCenter Height    2

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myControl Left    this ClientSize Width - myControl Width    2   myControl Top    this ClientSize Height - myControl Height    2

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You could achieve this with the use of anchors  Or more precisely the non use of them    Controls are anchored by default to the top left of the form which means when the form size will be changed  their distance from the top left side of the form will remain constant  If you change the control anchor to bottom left  then the control will keep the same distance from the bottom and left sides of the form when the form if resized   Turning off the anchor in a direction will keep the control centered in that direction when resizing   NOTE   Turning off anchoring via the properties window in VS2015 may require entering None  None  instead of default Top Left

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myControl Left    this ClientSize Width - myControl Width    2   myControl Top    this ClientSize Height - myControl Height    2

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Since you don t state if the form can resize or not there is an easy way if you don t care about resizing  if you do care  go with Mitch Wheats solution    Select the control -  Format  menu option  -  Center in Window -  Horizontally or Vertically

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