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RichEditControl Properties

Represents a RichEdit control which is a container for the rich-text document providing all the necessary functionality.
Name Description
ActiveView Gets the View currently used in the RichEditControl to display the document.
ActiveViewType Gets or sets the type of the View, currently used by the RichEditControl to show the document. This is a dependency property.
ActualHeight Gets the rendered height of this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
ActualWidth Gets the rendered width of this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
AllowDrop Gets or sets a value indicating whether this element can be used as the target of a drag-and-drop operation. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
AnnotationOptions Provides access to options for displaying annotations in a document. This is a dependency property.
AreAnyTouchesCaptured Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is captured to this element. Inherited from UIElement.
AreAnyTouchesCapturedWithin Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is captured to this element or to any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
AreAnyTouchesDirectlyOver Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is pressed over this element. Inherited from UIElement.
AreAnyTouchesOver Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is pressed over this element or any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
AuthenticationOptions Gets or sets the identity parameters for range editing permissions. This is a dependency property.
AutoBackground Specifies the default color value that is used when the background color is set to Auto. This is a dependency property.
AutoCorrectOptions Provides access to an object used to configure autocorrect features. This is a dependency property.
AutoForeground Specifies the default color value that is used when the foreground color is set to Auto. This is a dependency property.
AutoSizeMode For internal use.
Background Gets or sets a brush that describes the background of a control. Inherited from Control.
BarManager Gets or sets the main component that provides the Bars functionality. This is a dependency property.
BehaviorOptions Gets or sets the options for applying restrictions on different editor operations. This is a dependency property.
BindingGroup Gets or sets the BindingGroup that is used for the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
BitmapEffect Gets or sets a bitmap effect that applies directly to the rendered content for this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
BitmapEffectInput Gets or sets an input source for the bitmap effect that applies directly to the rendered content for this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
BookmarkOptions Gets or sets the options for document bookmarks. This is a dependency property.
BorderBrush Gets or sets a brush that describes the border background of a control. Inherited from Control.
BorderThickness Gets or sets the border thickness of a control. Inherited from Control.
CacheMode Gets or sets a cached representation of the UIElement. Inherited from UIElement.
CanRedo Indicates whether there are actions that occurred recently within the control that can be reapplied.
CanUndo Indicates whether the user can undo the previous operation.
CharCount Gets the number of characters in a document.
CharsCount Obsolete. Gets the number of characters in the document.
Clip Gets or sets the geometry used to define the outline of the contents of an element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
ClipboardFormatOptions Gets or sets an object used to specify the data formats available on the Clipboard. This is a dependency property.
ClipToBounds Gets or sets a value indicating whether to clip the content of this element (or content coming from the child elements of this element) to fit into the size of the containing element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
CommandBarStyle Gets or sets the command bar for the RichEditControl. This is a dependency property.
CommandBindings Gets a collection of CommandBinding objects associated with this element. A CommandBinding enables command handling for this element, and declares the linkage between a command, its events, and the handlers attached by this element. Inherited from UIElement.
CommandProvider Gets or sets a RichEditControl’s command provider. This is a dependency property.
CommentOptions Gets or sets the options for displaying comments in the document. This is a dependency property.
Content Gets or sets the control’s content. This is a dependency property.
ContextMenu Gets or sets the context menu element that should appear whenever the context menu is requested through user interface (UI) from within this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
CopyPasteOptions Gets or sets the options affecting certain copy-paste scenarios. This is a dependency property.
CornerBoxVisibility Gets or sets whether the corner box element is displayed. This is a dependency property.
Cursor Gets or sets the cursor that displays when the mouse pointer is over this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
DataContext Gets or sets the data context for an element when it participates in data binding. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
DefaultStyleKey protected Gets or sets the key to use to reference the style for this control, when theme styles are used or defined. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
DefaultViewType Gets the default view type used by the RichEdit control.
DependencyObjectType Gets the DependencyObjectType that wraps the CLR type of this instance. Inherited from DependencyObject.
DesiredSize Gets the size that this element computed during the measure pass of the layout process. Inherited from UIElement.
Dispatcher Gets the Dispatcher this DispatcherObject is associated with. Inherited from DispatcherObject.
DocBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in DOC (Microsoft Word 97-2003) format.
DocmBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in DOCM (Microsoft Word 97-2003 Macro-Enabled) format.
Document Provides access to a Document interface representing the control’s document.
DocumentCapabilitiesOptions Gets or sets an object used to configure document restrictions. This is a dependency property.
DocumentLayout Provides access to Layout API.
DocumentLoader Gets or sets the object that provides the IRichEditDocumentLoader interface and can be used to load a document.
DocumentSaveOptions Gets or sets an object used to specify the control’s document saving options. This is a dependency property.
DocumentSource Gets or sets a document supplier for RichEditControl. This is a dependency property.
DocumentViewDirection Specifies the page order in Print Layout view and in Print Preview.
DotBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in DOT (Microsoft Word 97-2003 Template) format.
DotmBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in DOTM (Microsoft Word 97-2003 Macro-Enabled Template) format.
DotxBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in DOTX (Microsoft Word Template) format.
DpiX Gets the current dpi value for the X-coordinate.
DpiY Gets the current dpi value for the Y-coordinate.
Effect Gets or sets the bitmap effect to apply to the UIElement. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
ExportOptions Provides access to options used to export the document to different formats. This is a dependency property.
FieldOptions Gets or sets the options specific to document fields. This is a dependency property.
FlatOpcBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in FlatOpc (Microsoft Word XML Document, .xml) format.
FlatOpcMacroEnabledBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in FlatOpcMacroEnabled (Microsoft Word Macro-Enabled XML Document, .xml) format.
FlatOpcMacroEnabledTemplateBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in FlatOpcMacroEnabledTemplate (Microsoft Word Macro-Enabled XML Template, .xml) format.
FlatOpcTemplateBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in FlatOpcTemplate (Microsoft Word XML Template, .xml) format.
FlowDirection Gets or sets the direction that text and other user interface (UI) elements flow within any parent element that controls their layout. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Focusable Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the element can receive focus. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
FocusElement Gets the element with logical focus.
FocusVisualStyle Gets or sets a property that enables customization of appearance, effects, or other style characteristics that will apply to this element when it captures keyboard focus. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
FontFamily Gets or sets the font family of the control. Inherited from Control.
FontSize Gets or sets the font size. Inherited from Control.
FontStretch Gets or sets the degree to which a font is condensed or expanded on the screen. Inherited from Control.
FontStyle Gets or sets the font style. Inherited from Control.
FontWeight Gets or sets the weight or thickness of the specified font. Inherited from Control.
ForceCursor Gets or sets a value that indicates whether this FrameworkElement should force the user interface (UI) to render the cursor as declared by the Cursor property. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Foreground Gets or sets a brush that describes the foreground color. Inherited from Control.
FormattingMarkVisibilityOptions Gets or sets the options for displaying the formatting marks. This is a dependency property.
HandlesScrolling protected Gets a value that indicates whether a control supports scrolling. Inherited from Control.
HandleWindowClose Gets or sets whether RichEditControl should be disposed of when a window is closed.
HasAnimatedProperties Gets a value indicating whether this element has any animated properties. Inherited from UIElement.
HasEffectiveKeyboardFocus protected Gets a value that indicates whether the UIElement has focus. Inherited from UIElement.
HasToolTip This member supports the internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
Height Gets or sets the suggested height of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
HorizontalAlignment Gets or sets the horizontal alignment characteristics applied to this element when it is composed within a parent element, such as a panel or items control. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
HorizontalContentAlignment Gets or sets the horizontal alignment of the control’s content. Inherited from Control.
HorizontalRuler This member supports the internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
HorizontalRulerOptions Gets or sets the options specific to the RichEditControl horizontal ruler element. This is a dependency property.
HorizontalRulerVisibility For internal use only. To specify whether the horizontal ruler is displayed, use the DXRichEditHorizontalRulerOptions.Visibility property.
HorizontalScrollBar Provides access to a horizontal scroll bar of the RichEditControl.
HorizontalScrollBarVisibility Gets or sets whether the horizontal scroll bar is displayed. This is a dependency property.
HorizontalScrollValue Gets or sets the current position of the scroll bar box on the horizontal scroll bar. This is a dependency property.
HoverMenuCalculator This member supports the internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
HtmlText Gets or sets the control’s content as HTML text.
HyperlinkOptions Gets or sets the options specific to hyperlinks. This is a dependency property.
HyphenationDictionaries Provides access to the collection of hyphenation dictionaries.
ImportOptions Provides access to options used to import the document from different formats. This is a dependency property.
InheritanceBehavior protected Gets or sets the scope limits for property value inheritance, resource key lookup, and RelativeSource FindAncestor lookup. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
InputBindings Gets the collection of input bindings associated with this element. Inherited from UIElement.
InputScope Gets or sets the context for input used by this FrameworkElement. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
IsArrangeValid Gets a value indicating whether the computed size and position of child elements in this element’s layout are valid. Inherited from UIElement.
IsCaretVisible Gets or sets whether the caret is displayed.
IsEnabled Gets or sets a value indicating whether this element is enabled in the user interface (UI). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsEnabledCore protected Gets a value that becomes the return value of IsEnabled in derived classes. Inherited from UIElement.
IsFloatingObjectSelected Indicates whether any floating object in the document is selected.
IsFocused Gets a value that determines whether this element has logical focus. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsHitTestVisible Gets or sets a value that declares whether this element can possibly be returned as a hit test result from some portion of its rendered content. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsInitialized Gets a value that indicates whether this element has been initialized, either during processing by a XAML processor, or by explicitly having its EndInit() method called. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
IsInputMethodEnabled Gets a value indicating whether an input method system, such as an Input Method Editor (IME), is enabled for processing the input to this element. Inherited from UIElement.
IsKeyboardFocused Gets a value indicating whether this element has keyboard focus. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsKeyboardFocusWithin Gets a value indicating whether keyboard focus is anywhere within the element or its visual tree child elements. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsLoaded Gets a value that indicates whether this element has been loaded for presentation. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
IsManipulationEnabled Gets or sets a value that indicates whether manipulation events are enabled on this UIElement. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMeasureValid Gets a value indicating whether the current size returned by layout measure is valid. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseCaptured Gets a value indicating whether the mouse is captured to this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseCaptureWithin Gets a value that determines whether mouse capture is held by this element or by child elements in its visual tree. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseDirectlyOver Gets a value that indicates whether the position of the mouse pointer corresponds to hit test results, which take element compositing into account. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseOver Gets a value indicating whether the mouse pointer is located over this element (including child elements in the visual tree). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsSealed Gets a value that indicates whether this instance is currently sealed (read-only). Inherited from DependencyObject.
IsSelectionInComment Indicates whether the selection (CaretPosition) is located in a comment.
IsSelectionInFooter Indicates whether the selection (CaretPosition) is located in the document footer.
IsSelectionInHeader Indicates whether the selection (CaretPosition) is located in the document header.
IsSelectionInHeaderOrFooter Indicates whether the selection (CaretPosition) is located in the main document or the header or footer.
IsSelectionInTextBox Indicates whether the selection (CaretPosition) is located in a text box.
IsStylusCaptured Gets a value indicating whether the stylus is captured by this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsStylusCaptureWithin Gets a value that determines whether stylus capture is held by this element, or an element within the element bounds and its visual tree. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsStylusDirectlyOver Gets a value that indicates whether the stylus position corresponds to hit test results, which take element compositing into account. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsStylusOver Gets a value indicating whether the stylus cursor is located over this element (including visual child elements). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsTabStop Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a control is included in tab navigation. Inherited from Control.
IsUpdateLocked Returns a value indicating whether the RichEditControl is locked for update.
IsVisible Gets a value indicating whether this element is visible in the user interface (UI). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
KeyCodeConverter This member supports the internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
Language Gets or sets localization/globalization language information that applies to an element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
LayoutOptions Gets or sets an object used to set the options that affect the layout of the RichEditControl views. This is a dependency property.
LayoutTransform Gets or sets a graphics transformation that should apply to this element when layout is performed. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
LayoutUnit Gets or sets a unit of measure used for a control’s layout. Starting from v18.1, this property has no effect.
MailMergeOptions Obtains common mail merge options. This is a dependency property.
Margin Gets or sets the outer margin of an element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MaxHeight Gets or sets the maximum height constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MaxWidth Gets or sets the maximum width constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MenuCustomizations Allows you to customize the Rich Text Editor’s context menus. This is a dependency property.
MhtText Gets or sets the control’s content as MHT text.
MinHeight Gets or sets the minimum height constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MinWidth Gets or sets the minimum width constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Model This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
Modified Gets or sets a value that indicates that the RichEdit control content was modified since it was last saved.
Name Gets or sets the identifying name of the element. The name provides a reference so that code-behind, such as event handler code, can refer to a markup element after it is constructed during processing by a XAML processor. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Opacity Gets or sets the opacity factor applied to the entire UIElement when it is rendered in the user interface (UI). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
OpacityMask Gets or sets an opacity mask, as a Brush implementation that is applied to any alpha-channel masking for the rendered content of this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
OpenDocumentBytes Gets or sets the document content as an array of bytes in Open Office Text (.odt) format.
OpenXmlBytes Gets or sets the control’s content as an array of bytes in Office Open XML (Docx) format.
Options Provides access to various options of the RichEditControl.
OverridesDefaultStyle Gets or sets a value that indicates whether this element incorporates style properties from theme styles. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Overtype Specifies whether the overtype mode is enabled for the RichEdit control.
Padding Gets or sets the padding inside a control. Inherited from Control.
ParagraphCount Gets the number of paragraphs in a document.
ParagraphsCount Obsolete. Gets the number of paragraphs in the document.
Parent Gets the logical parent element of this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
PersistId Gets a value that uniquely identifies this element. Inherited from UIElement.
PlainText Obsolete. Gets the plain text content of the control. Use the Text property instead.
PrintingOptions Gets or sets the document printing options. This is a dependency property.
RangePermissionOptions Gets or sets the options specific to ranges with permission. This is a dependency property.
ReadOnly Gets or sets whether document modifications are prohibited.
RenderSize Gets (or sets) the final render size of this element. Inherited from UIElement.
RenderTransform Gets or sets transform information that affects the rendering position of this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
RenderTransformOrigin Gets or sets the center point of any possible render transform declared by RenderTransform, relative to the bounds of the element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
Resources Gets or sets the locally-defined resource dictionary. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Ribbon Gets or sets the Ribbon control containing command controls for use with the current RichEditControl.
RibbonActions Provides access to the collection of actions when using an integrated Ribbon Command UI.
RtfText Gets or sets the formatted text content of the control.
SearchOptions Provides access to an object used to specify parameters affecting a search in a document. This is a dependency property.
SearchPanel Provides access to a Search Panel of the RichEditControl.
SectionCount Gets the number of sections in a document.
SectionsCount Obsolete. Gets the number of sections in the document.
Selection Gets the plain text of the selected range.
SelectionRTF Gets the formatted text of the selected range.
ShowBorder Gets or sets whether to display the border of the RichEditControl. This is a dependency property.
ShowCaretInReadOnly Gets or sets whether the caret is displayed if the control is read-only.
ShowHoverMenu Gets or sets whether the hover menu can be shown. This is a dependency property.
ShowReviewingPane Gets or sets whether the Reviewing Pane should be displayed. This is a dependency property.
SnapsToDevicePixels Gets or sets a value that determines whether rendering for this element should use device-specific pixel settings during rendering. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
SpellChecker Gets or sets a spell checker component used with the RichEdit control.
SpellCheckerOptions Provides access to the options which control how spell checking is performed. This is a dependency property.
Style Gets or sets the style used by this element when it is rendered. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
StylusPlugIns protected Gets a collection of all stylus plug-in (customization) objects associated with this element. Inherited from UIElement.
Surface This member supports the internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
TabIndex Gets or sets a value that determines the order in which elements receive focus when the user navigates through controls by using the TAB key. Inherited from Control.
TableOptions Provides access to an object used to specify options for the document tables. This is a dependency property.
Tag Gets or sets an arbitrary object value that can be used to store custom information about this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Template Gets or sets a control template. Inherited from Control.
TemplatedParent Gets a reference to the template parent of this element. This property is not relevant if the element was not created through a template. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Text Gets or sets the plain text content of the control.
ToolTip Gets or sets the tool-tip object that is displayed for this element in the user interface (UI). Inherited from FrameworkElement.
TouchesCaptured Gets all touch devices that are captured to this element. Inherited from UIElement.
TouchesCapturedWithin Gets all touch devices that are captured to this element or any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
TouchesDirectlyOver Gets all touch devices that are over this element. Inherited from UIElement.
TouchesOver Gets all touch devices that are over this element or any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
Triggers Gets the collection of triggers established directly on this element, or in child elements. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Uid Gets or sets the unique identifier (for localization) for this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
Unit Gets or sets a unit of measure used within the control.
UseBuiltInReviewingPane Gets or sets whether to use an integrated Reviewing Pane. This is a dependency property.
UseDeferredDataBindingNotifications Enables you to fire data binding events immediately for several text properties, resolving issues with multiple RichEdit controls bound to the same data source.
UseGlyphRendering static Gets or sets whether to adjust glyph rendering.
UseLayoutRounding Gets or sets a value that indicates whether layout rounding should be applied to this element’s size and position during layout. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
VerticalAlignment Gets or sets the vertical alignment characteristics applied to this element when it is composed within a parent element such as a panel or items control. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
VerticalContentAlignment Gets or sets the vertical alignment of the control’s content. Inherited from Control.
VerticalRuler This member supports the internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
VerticalRulerOptions Gets or sets the object used to set the options specific to the RichEditCotnrol vertical ruler element. This is a dependency property.
VerticalRulerVisibility For internal use only. To specify whether the vertical ruler is displayed, use the DXRichEditVerticalRulerOptions.Visibility property.
VerticalScrollBar Provides access to a horizontal scroll bar of the RichEditControl.
VerticalScrollBarVisibility Gets or sets whether the vertical ruler is displayed. This is a dependency property.
VerticalScrollPosition Obsolete. Gets or sets the top visible position in the scrolled document.
VerticalScrollValue Gets or sets a numeric value that represents the current position of the scroll bar box on the vertical scroll bar. This is a dependency property.
ViewBounds Gets the bounds of the RichEditControl client region.
Views Contains settings of the Views that are used to display a document in the RichEdit Control.
Visibility Gets or sets the user interface (UI) visibility of this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
VisualBitmapEffect protected Gets or sets the BitmapEffect value for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualBitmapEffectInput protected Gets or sets the BitmapEffectInput value for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualBitmapScalingMode protected Gets or sets the BitmapScalingMode for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualCacheMode protected Gets or sets a cached representation of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualChildrenCount protected Gets the number of visual child elements within this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
VisualClearTypeHint protected Gets or sets the ClearTypeHint that determines how ClearType is rendered in the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualClip protected Gets or sets the clip region of the Visual as a Geometry value. Inherited from Visual.
VisualEdgeMode protected Gets or sets the edge mode of the Visual as an EdgeMode value. Inherited from Visual.
VisualEffect protected Gets or sets the bitmap effect to apply to the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualOffset protected Gets or sets the offset value of the visual object. Inherited from Visual.
VisualOpacity protected Gets or sets the opacity of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualOpacityMask protected Gets or sets the Brush value that represents the opacity mask of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualParent protected Gets the visual tree parent of the visual object. Inherited from Visual.
VisualScrollableAreaClip protected Gets or sets a clipped scrollable area for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualTextHintingMode protected Gets or sets the TextHintingMode of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualTextRenderingMode protected Gets or sets the TextRenderingMode of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualTransform protected Gets or sets the Transform value for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualXSnappingGuidelines protected Gets or sets the x-coordinate (vertical) guideline collection. Inherited from Visual.
VisualYSnappingGuidelines protected Gets or sets the y-coordinate (horizontal) guideline collection. Inherited from Visual.
Width Gets or sets the width of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
WordCount Gets the number of words in a document.
WordMLText Gets or sets the control’s content in WordProcessingML (Microsoft Office Word 2003 XML) format.
WordsCount Obsolete. Gets the number of words in the current document.
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