RichEditControl.Content Property

Gets or sets the control’s content. This is a dependency property.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.RichEdit

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.RichEdit.v23.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.RichEdit

Declaration

C#

public RichEditDocumentContent Content { get; set; }

VB.NET

Public Property Content As RichEditDocumentContent

Property Value

Type	Description
RichEditDocumentContent	A RichEditDocumentContent class instance used to obtain the control’s content in different formats.

Remarks

Use the Content property to bind RichEditControl content to HTML, RTF or plain text data.

Note that RichEditControl.HtmlText, RichEditControl.RtfText or RichEditControl.Text properties are not dependency properties, so they cannot be used to bind text to the control. Use one of the following converter to bind data to the Content property:

• HtmlToContentConverter
• RtfToContentConverter
• PlainTextToContentConverter
• OpenDocumentToContentConverter
• WordMLToContentConverter

You can also use the following properties to bind the control to a content data:

RichEditControl.DocumentSource

Gets or sets a document supplier for RichEditControl. This is a dependency property.

RichEditControl.OpenXmlBytes

Gets or sets the control’s content as an array of bytes in Office Open XML (Docx) format.

The code sample below binds standard TextControl to the RichEditControl using the ContentToPlainTextConverter class.

A BarManager component enables the hover menu.

View Example: How to implement a converter to bind RichEditControl to the text in different formats

MainWindow.xaml

<Window.Resources>
    <dxre:ContentToPlainTextConverter x:Key="ContentPlainConverter" />
    <dxre:RichEditUICommand x:Key="commands" />
</Window.Resources>

<Grid>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ColumnDefinition />
        <ColumnDefinition/>
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <dxb:BarManager Name="barManager1" Grid.Column="0"> 
                    <dxre:RichEditControl x:Name="richEditControl1"  Height="Auto" Width="Auto" 
                       BarManager="{Binding ElementName=barManager1}" ActiveViewType="Simple" />
    </dxb:BarManager>
    <TextBox Text="{Binding ElementName=richEditControl1, Path=Content, Converter={StaticResource ContentPlainConverter}, Mode=OneWay}" 
        x:Name="textBox1" Grid.Column="1" Height="Auto" Width="Auto"/>
</Grid>

When binding multiple controls to the same data source, set the RichEditControl.UseDeferredDataBindingNotifications property to false to fire the binding-related events at the same time.

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XAML

wpf-richedit-bind-richeditcontrol-to-text-in-different-formats/CS/BindingConverter/MainWindow.xaml#L22

</dxb:BarManager>
<TextBox Text="{Binding ElementName=richEditControl1, Path=Content, Converter={StaticResource ContentPlainConverter}, Mode=OneWay}"
    x:Name="textBox1" Grid.Column="1" Height="Auto" Width="Auto"/>