Text selection on textblock and label wpf

Question

I have a form, which includes TextBlocks, Lables, Borders. And I want to be able to select text with the mouse like it would be some text in the table in MS Word or HTML table. And I can't use TextBox or RichTextBox instead. Is there a way to achive my goal?

<Grid Margin="20">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
    <RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1">
    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
        <TextBlock Text="some text in TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
        <Label Content="another text in Label"/>
    </StackPanel>
</Border>
<Border Grid.Row="1" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1">
    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
        <TextBlock Text="one more  in TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
        <Label Content="one more text in Label"/>
    </StackPanel>
</Border>

Is there any particular reason why you can't use a styled TextBoxes instead? eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/136435/any-way-to-make-a-wpf-textblock-selectable or http://geekswithblogs.net/mhildreth/archive/2008/06/25/selectable-labels-in-wpf-to-allow-copy-and-paste.aspx — Arie, Jan 11 '16 at 15:02
You can use a `TextBox` with `IsReadOnly ="True"` instead of `TextBlock` for this purpose — Salah Akbari, Jan 11 '16 at 15:02
Was just about to ask the exact [same](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12720096/how-can-i-make-textblock-as-selectable-so-that-user-can-copy-its-text/12720189#12720189) thing — Chris W., Jan 11 '16 at 15:02
Use a readonly textbox instead and render it like a label like [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2506504/4746087) — Kurt Van den Branden, Jan 11 '16 at 15:23
Please clarify... do you want to select text across the textblock AND the label or within one control? — grek40, Jan 11 '16 at 16:42
@grek40, Well, may be I can use TextBoxes...But it allows me to select text across ONE control, but I need to select all the text or part it. Like it would be on a web page. On a web page I can select whatever I want however I want. — daewoosh, Jan 12 '16 at 06:35

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '17 at 14:46

Use TextBox instead of a TextBlock, like the following code:

<TextBox
     Background="Transparent"
     TextWrapping="Wrap"
     Text="{Binding Desired, Mode=OneWay}"
     IsReadOnly="True"
     BorderThickness="0"/>

To make it cleaner, careate a template for the TextBlock and use the previous TextBox inside it.

score -2 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 07 '16 at 18:28

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You can achieve it like this:

<TextBlock Text="test2"
           FontSize="16"
           IsTextSelectionEnabled="true"
           SelectionHighlightColor="Green"
           x:Name="test"      
           Foreground="Black"
           TextWrapping="Wrap"
           TextAlignment="Left"/>

Just set IsTextSelectionEnabled to true. You can also chagne color of selected text by changing SelectionHighlightColor property.

edited Nov 07 '16 at 18:28

Massimiliano Kraus

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answered Jul 08 '16 at 11:17

David Škarda

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You can't use it in Win7, as written [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/35091222/4165377) (I can confirm this). – Massimiliano Kraus Nov 07 '16 at 17:43
Using Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10, can't see these properties for a TextBlock – Yoav Feuerstein Aug 15 '17 at 09:14
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Can't see these properties, also running Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10 – hegu_141 Sep 27 '17 at 13:42

Text selection on textblock and label wpf

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