Newline in string attribute

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How can I add a line break to text when it is being set as an attribute i e     lt TextBlock Text  Stuff on line1  n Stuff on line2    gt    Breaking it out into the exploded format isn t an option for my particular situation   What I need is some way to emulate the following    lt TextBlock gt     lt TextBlock Text gt      Stuff on line1  lt LineBreak  gt      Stuff on line2    lt  TextBlock Text gt   lt TextBlock  gt

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lt TextBlock Text  Stuff on line1 amp  x0a Stuff on line 2   gt    You can use any hexadecimally encoded value to represent a literal  In this case  I used the line feed  char 10   If you want to do  classic  vbCrLf  then you can use  amp  x0d  amp  x0a   By the way  note the syntax  It s the ampersand  a pound  the letter x  then the hex value of the character you want  and then finally a semi-colon   ALSO  For completeness  you can bind to a text that already has the line feeds embedded in it like a constant in your code behind  or a variable constructed at runtime

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Code behind solution  private void Button1 Click object sender  RoutedEventArgs e        System Text StringBuilder myStringBuilder   new System Text StringBuilder        myStringBuilder Append  Orange   AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append     AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append  Apple   AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append  Banana   AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append     AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append  Plum   AppendLine        TextBox1 Text   myStringBuilder ToString

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Also doesn t work with    lt TextBlock gt  lt TextBlock Text gt NO USING ABOVE TECHNIQUE HERE lt  TextBlock Text gt    No big deal  just needed to use    lt TextBlock Text  Cool  amp  x0a Newline trick    gt    instead

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For those that have tried every answer to this question and are still scratching their heads as to why none of them work for you  you might have ran into a form of the issue I ran into   My TextBlock Text property was inside of a ToolTipService ToolTip element and it was databound to a property of an object whose data was being pulled from a SQL stored procedure   Now the data from this particular property within the stored procedure was being pulled from a SQL function   Since nothing had worked for me  I gave up my search and created the converter class below     public class NewLineConverter   IValueConverter       public object Convert object value  Type targetType  object parameter  CultureInfo culture                var s   string Empty           if  value IsNotNull                          s   value ToString                 if  s Contains    r  n                    s   s Replace    r  n   Environment NewLine                if  s Contains    n                    s   s Replace    n   Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  x0a  amp  x0d                     s   s Replace   amp  x0a  amp  x0d    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  x0a                     s   s Replace   amp  x0a    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  x0d                     s   s Replace   amp  x0d    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  10  amp  13                     s   s Replace   amp  10  amp  13    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  10                     s   s Replace   amp  10    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  13                     s   s Replace   amp  13    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   lt br   gt                     s   s Replace   lt br   gt    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   lt LineBreak   gt                     s   s Replace   lt LineBreak   gt    Environment NewLine                      return s             public object ConvertBack object value  Type targetType  object parameter  CultureInfo culture                throw new NotImplementedException              I ended up having to use the Enivornment NewLine method from  dparker s answer   I instructed the converter to look for any possible textual representation of a newline and replace it with Environment NewLine    This worked    However  I was still perplexed as to why none of the other methods worked with databound properties   I left a comment on  BobKing s accepted answer       BobKing - This doesn t seem to work in the ToolTipService ToolTip when binding to a field that has the line feeds embedded from a SQL sproc    He replied with       CodeMaverick If you re binding to text with the new lines embedded  they should probably be real char 10 values  or 13 s  and not the XML sentinels  This is only if you want to write literal new lines in XAML files    A light bulb went off   I went into my SQL function  replaced my textual representations of newlines with      CHAR  13     CHAR  10         removed the converter from my TextBlock Text binding  and just like that     it worked

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Maybe someone prefers   lt TextBlock Text   Binding StringFormat  Stuff on line1 0 Stuff on line2 0 Stuff on line3                             Source  x Static s Environment NewLine      gt    with xmlns s  clr-namespace System assembly mscorlib

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lt TextBox      Name  myTextBox       TextWrapping  Wrap       AcceptsReturn  True       VerticalScrollBarVisibility  Visible    gt

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I realize this is on older question but just wanted to add that      Environment NewLine   also works if doing this through code

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Note that to do this you need to do it in the Text attribute you cannot use the content like   lt TextBlock gt Stuff on line1 amp  x0a Stuff on line 2 lt  TextBlock gt

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I have found this helpful  but ran into some errors when adding it to a  Content      tag in XAML   I had multiple lines in the content  and later found out that the content kept white spaces even though I didn t specify that   so to get around that and having it  ignore  the whitespace  I implemented such as this    lt ToolTip Width  200  Style   StaticResource ToolTip             Content   Text Line 1                       amp  x0a  amp  x0d  Text Line 2                       amp  x0a  amp  x0d  Text Line 3    gt    hope this helps someone else    The output is has the three text lines with an empty line in between each

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You need just removing  lt TextBlock Text gt  and simply adding your content as following          lt Grid Margin  20  gt           lt TextBlock TextWrapping  Wrap  TextAlignment  Justify  FontSize  17  gt           lt Bold FontFamily  Segoe UI Light  FontSize  70  gt I R  Iran lt  Bold gt  lt LineBreak  gt           lt Span FontSize  35  gt I lt  Span gt ran or Persia  officially the  lt Italic gt Islamic Republic of Iran lt  Italic gt            is a country in Western Asia  The country is bordered on the          north by Armenia  Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan  with Kazakhstan and Russia          to the north across the Caspian Sea  lt LineBreak  gt           lt Span FontSize  10  gt For more information about Iran see  lt Hyperlink NavigateUri  http   en WikiPedia org wiki Iran  gt WikiPedia lt  Hyperlink gt  lt  Span gt               lt LineBreak  gt               lt LineBreak  gt               lt Span FontSize  12  gt                   lt Span gt Is this page helpful  lt  Span gt                   lt Button Content  No   gt                   lt Button Content  Yes   gt               lt  Span gt       lt  TextBlock gt       lt  Grid gt

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Code behind solution  private void Button1 Click object sender  RoutedEventArgs e        System Text StringBuilder myStringBuilder   new System Text StringBuilder        myStringBuilder Append  Orange   AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append     AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append  Apple   AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append  Banana   AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append     AppendLine        myStringBuilder Append  Plum   AppendLine        TextBox1 Text   myStringBuilder ToString

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I realize this is on older question but just wanted to add that      Environment NewLine   also works if doing this through code

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lt TextBox      Name  myTextBox       TextWrapping  Wrap       AcceptsReturn  True       VerticalScrollBarVisibility  Visible    gt

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May be you can use the attribute xml space  preserve  for preserving whitespace in the source XAML   lt TextBlock xml space  preserve  gt  Stuff on line 1 Stuff on line 2  lt  TextBlock gt

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Maybe someone prefers   lt TextBlock Text   Binding StringFormat  Stuff on line1 0 Stuff on line2 0 Stuff on line3                             Source  x Static s Environment NewLine      gt    with xmlns s  clr-namespace System assembly mscorlib

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lt TextBlock gt      Stuff on line1  lt LineBreak  gt      Stuff on line2  lt  TextBlock gt    not that it s important to know but what you specify between the TextBlock tags is called inline content and goes into the TextBlock Inlines property which is a InlineCollection and contains items of type Inline   Subclasses of Inline are Run and LineBreak  among others   see TextBlock Inlines

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Note that to do this you need to do it in the Text attribute you cannot use the content like   lt TextBlock gt Stuff on line1 amp  x0a Stuff on line 2 lt  TextBlock gt

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For those that have tried every answer to this question and are still scratching their heads as to why none of them work for you  you might have ran into a form of the issue I ran into   My TextBlock Text property was inside of a ToolTipService ToolTip element and it was databound to a property of an object whose data was being pulled from a SQL stored procedure   Now the data from this particular property within the stored procedure was being pulled from a SQL function   Since nothing had worked for me  I gave up my search and created the converter class below     public class NewLineConverter   IValueConverter       public object Convert object value  Type targetType  object parameter  CultureInfo culture                var s   string Empty           if  value IsNotNull                          s   value ToString                 if  s Contains    r  n                    s   s Replace    r  n   Environment NewLine                if  s Contains    n                    s   s Replace    n   Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  x0a  amp  x0d                     s   s Replace   amp  x0a  amp  x0d    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  x0a                     s   s Replace   amp  x0a    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  x0d                     s   s Replace   amp  x0d    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  10  amp  13                     s   s Replace   amp  10  amp  13    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  10                     s   s Replace   amp  10    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   amp  13                     s   s Replace   amp  13    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   lt br   gt                     s   s Replace   lt br   gt    Environment NewLine                if  s Contains   lt LineBreak   gt                     s   s Replace   lt LineBreak   gt    Environment NewLine                      return s             public object ConvertBack object value  Type targetType  object parameter  CultureInfo culture                throw new NotImplementedException              I ended up having to use the Enivornment NewLine method from  dparker s answer   I instructed the converter to look for any possible textual representation of a newline and replace it with Environment NewLine    This worked    However  I was still perplexed as to why none of the other methods worked with databound properties   I left a comment on  BobKing s accepted answer       BobKing - This doesn t seem to work in the ToolTipService ToolTip when binding to a field that has the line feeds embedded from a SQL sproc    He replied with       CodeMaverick If you re binding to text with the new lines embedded  they should probably be real char 10 values  or 13 s  and not the XML sentinels  This is only if you want to write literal new lines in XAML files    A light bulb went off   I went into my SQL function  replaced my textual representations of newlines with      CHAR  13     CHAR  10         removed the converter from my TextBlock Text binding  and just like that     it worked

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When you need to do it in a string  eg  in your resources  you need to use xml space  preserve  and the ampersand character codes    lt System String x Key  TwoLiner  xml space  preserve  gt First line amp  10 Second line lt  System String gt    Or literal newlines in the text    lt System String x Key  TwoLiner  xml space  preserve  gt First line  Second line lt  System String gt    Warning  if you write code like the second example  you have inserted either a newline  or a carriage return and newline  depending on the line endings your operating system and or text editor use  For instance  if you write that and commit it to git from a linux systems  everything may seem fine -- but if someone clones it to Windows  git will convert your line endings to  r n and depending on what your string is for     you might break the world   Just be aware of that when you re preserving whitespace  If you write something like this    lt System String x Key  TwoLiner  xml space  preserve  gt  First line  Second line   lt  System String gt    You ve actually added four line breaks  possibly four carriage-returns  and potentially trailing white space that s invisible

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Also doesn t work with    lt TextBlock gt  lt TextBlock Text gt NO USING ABOVE TECHNIQUE HERE lt  TextBlock Text gt    No big deal  just needed to use    lt TextBlock Text  Cool  amp  x0a Newline trick    gt    instead

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You need just removing  lt TextBlock Text gt  and simply adding your content as following          lt Grid Margin  20  gt           lt TextBlock TextWrapping  Wrap  TextAlignment  Justify  FontSize  17  gt           lt Bold FontFamily  Segoe UI Light  FontSize  70  gt I R  Iran lt  Bold gt  lt LineBreak  gt           lt Span FontSize  35  gt I lt  Span gt ran or Persia  officially the  lt Italic gt Islamic Republic of Iran lt  Italic gt            is a country in Western Asia  The country is bordered on the          north by Armenia  Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan  with Kazakhstan and Russia          to the north across the Caspian Sea  lt LineBreak  gt           lt Span FontSize  10  gt For more information about Iran see  lt Hyperlink NavigateUri  http   en WikiPedia org wiki Iran  gt WikiPedia lt  Hyperlink gt  lt  Span gt               lt LineBreak  gt               lt LineBreak  gt               lt Span FontSize  12  gt                   lt Span gt Is this page helpful  lt  Span gt                   lt Button Content  No   gt                   lt Button Content  Yes   gt               lt  Span gt       lt  TextBlock gt       lt  Grid gt

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lt TextBlock gt      Stuff on line1  lt LineBreak  gt      Stuff on line2  lt  TextBlock gt    not that it s important to know but what you specify between the TextBlock tags is called inline content and goes into the TextBlock Inlines property which is a InlineCollection and contains items of type Inline   Subclasses of Inline are Run and LineBreak  among others   see TextBlock Inlines

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When you need to do it in a string  eg  in your resources  you need to use xml space  preserve  and the ampersand character codes    lt System String x Key  TwoLiner  xml space  preserve  gt First line amp  10 Second line lt  System String gt    Or literal newlines in the text    lt System String x Key  TwoLiner  xml space  preserve  gt First line  Second line lt  System String gt    Warning  if you write code like the second example  you have inserted either a newline  or a carriage return and newline  depending on the line endings your operating system and or text editor use  For instance  if you write that and commit it to git from a linux systems  everything may seem fine -- but if someone clones it to Windows  git will convert your line endings to  r n and depending on what your string is for     you might break the world   Just be aware of that when you re preserving whitespace  If you write something like this    lt System String x Key  TwoLiner  xml space  preserve  gt  First line  Second line   lt  System String gt    You ve actually added four line breaks  possibly four carriage-returns  and potentially trailing white space that s invisible

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I have found this helpful  but ran into some errors when adding it to a  Content      tag in XAML   I had multiple lines in the content  and later found out that the content kept white spaces even though I didn t specify that   so to get around that and having it  ignore  the whitespace  I implemented such as this    lt ToolTip Width  200  Style   StaticResource ToolTip             Content   Text Line 1                       amp  x0a  amp  x0d  Text Line 2                       amp  x0a  amp  x0d  Text Line 3    gt    hope this helps someone else    The output is has the three text lines with an empty line in between each

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May be you can use the attribute xml space  preserve  for preserving whitespace in the source XAML   lt TextBlock xml space  preserve  gt  Stuff on line 1 Stuff on line 2  lt  TextBlock gt

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