Appearance Customization

• Jan 11, 2022
• 4 minutes to read

This topic lists properties that you can use to customize the appearance of layout items.

Layout Groups

• Foreground
• BorderBrush, BorderThickness
• Padding, Margin

Caption

Use the Appearance property to customize the appearance settings for the item’s caption when it is in the normal and active (selected) states.

The table below lists more customization properties:

Property	Description
CaptionAlignMode	Gets or sets the alignment settings of a control(s) displayed by a LayoutControlItem object(s). This is a dependency property.
CaptionFormat	Gets or sets the format string used to format the layout item’s caption. This is a dependency property.
CaptionHorizontalAlignment	Gets or sets the item Caption‘s horizontal alignment. This is a dependency property.
CaptionImage	Gets or sets the image displayed within the item’s Caption. This is a dependency property.
CaptionImageLocation	Gets or sets the relative position of an image within the item’s caption. This is a dependency property.
CaptionImageStyle	Gets or sets the caption image style. This is a dependency property.
CaptionLocation	Gets or sets the position of the item’s Caption. This is a dependency property.
CaptionTemplate	Gets or sets the template used to visualize the current item’s BaseLayoutItem.Caption.
CaptionTemplateSelector	Gets or sets an object that chooses a template applied to the BaseLayoutItem.CaptionTemplate property. This is a dependency property.
CaptionVerticalAlignment	Gets or sets the vertical alignment of the item’s caption. This is a dependency property.

TabCaption

Property	Description
TabCaptionFormat	Gets or sets the format string used to format the layout item’s tab caption. This is a dependency property.
TabCaptionHorizontalAlignment	Gets or sets the horizontal alignment of the item’s tab caption. This is a dependency property.
TabCaptionImage	Gets or sets an image displayed within the layout item caption in a tabbed layout. This is a dependency property.
TabCaptionTemplate	Gets or sets a template that defines the tab caption presentation. This is a dependency property.
TabCaptionTemplateSelector	Gets or sets an object that chooses a tab caption template based on custom logic. This is a dependency property.
TabCaptionVerticalAlignment	Gets or sets the vertical alignment of the item’s tab caption. This is a dependency property.

Font

• FontFamily
• FontSize
• FontStretch
• FontStyle
• FontWeight

Float Groups

Property	Description
FloatSize	Gets or sets the size of the item when it is floating. This is a dependency property.
ShowMinimizeButton	Gets or sets whether the minimize button is shown in the LayoutPanel. This property is supported for floating panels. This is a dependency property.
WindowTaskbarTitle	Gets or sets a title displayed for the current float group in the Windows Taskbar. This is an attached property.
WindowTaskbarIcon	Gets or sets an icon displayed for the current float group in the Windows Taskbar. This is an attached property.

Auto-Hide Groups

Property	Description
AutoHideSpeed	Gets or sets the time, in milliseconds, required to open/close an auto-hidden panel belonging to the current group. This is a dependency property.
AutoHideSize	Gets or sets the size of panels belonging to the current AutoHideGroup, in pixels. This is a dependency property.
AutoHideType	Gets or sets the panel’s position when it is hidden. This is an attached property.
DockType	Gets or sets the DockLayoutManager‘s side to which the AutoHideGroup is docked. This is a dependency property.
DockLayoutManager.AutoHideExpandMode	Gets or sets how an auto-hidden panel is expanded. This is a dependency property.
DockLayoutManager.AutoHideMode	Gets or sets the mode that specifies how auto-hidden panels are displayed relative to other panels when expanded. This is a dependency property.
DockLayoutManager.EnableWin32Compatibility	Gets or sets whether auto-hide and floating panels should be displayed over a WindowsFormsHost element. This is a dependency property.

Tabbed Groups

Property	Description
ShowTabForSinglePage	Gets or sets whether the only dock panel within the TabbedGroup should display its tab.
TabHeaderLayoutType	Gets or sets how the LayoutGroup displays the tab headers corresponding to the group’s child items. This property is in effect if the current group displays child items as tabs. This is a dependency property.
AutoScrollOnOverflow	Gets or sets how the tab headers are scrolled while selecting tabs when tab headers could not fit into the header panel. This is a dependency property.

Document Groups

Property	Description
MDIStyle	Gets or sets how the DocumentGroup displays its child panels, as floating windows or as tabs. This is a dependency property.
MDISize	Gets or sets the size of an MDI child panel. This property is in effect when the group’s DocumentGroup.MDIStyle property is set to MDI. This is an attached property.
PinLocation	Specifies where the pinned tabbed DocumentPanel is located. This is an attached property.
ShowPinButton	Gets or sets whether the Pin button on the tabbed DocumentPanel is visible. This is an attached and a dependency property.