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CharacterStyle Interface

Exposes methods and characteristics of a character style in a document.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native

Assembly: DevExpress.RichEdit.v24.1.Core.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.RichEdit.Core, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

[ComVisible(true)]
public interface CharacterStyle :
    CharacterPropertiesBase

Remarks

A style pertains to a document. It belongs to a particular document model, and you cannot add a style object from the style collection of one document to the style collection of another.

View Example

Document document = server.Document;
server.LoadDocument("Documents\\Grimm.docx", DocumentFormat.OpenXml);
CharacterStyle cstyle = document.CharacterStyles["MyCStyle"];
if (cstyle == null)
{
    cstyle = document.CharacterStyles.CreateNew();
    cstyle.Name = "MyCStyle";
    cstyle.Parent = document.CharacterStyles["Default Paragraph Font"];
    cstyle.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.DarkOrange;
    cstyle.Strikeout = StrikeoutType.Double;
    cstyle.FontName = "Verdana";
    document.CharacterStyles.Add(cstyle);
}
DocumentRange myRange = document.Paragraphs[0].Range;
CharacterProperties charProps =
    document.BeginUpdateCharacters(myRange);
charProps.Style = cstyle;
document.EndUpdateCharacters(charProps);
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