RepositoryItem.AutoHeight Property

Gets or sets a value specifying whether the editor’s height is calculated automatically to fit the editor’s content.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors.Repository

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v25.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

[DXCategory("Behavior")]
public virtual bool AutoHeight { get; set; }

VB.NET

<DXCategory("Behavior")>
Public Overridable Property AutoHeight As Boolean

Property Value

Type	Default	Description
Boolean	true	true if the editor’s height is calculated automatically to fit the editor’s content; otherwise, false.

Remarks

If the AutoHeight property value is true, editors automatically change their height to the minimum required to fit their content according to the style currently applied. Note: in this case, changing the editor’s Height property value will have no effect. If you need to specify the editor’s height manually, set the AutoHeight property to false.

Automatic height calculation is not supported by all editors. Thus, the AutoHeight property is overridden by some RepositoryItem descendants to hide it at design time and return false always.

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

winforms-grid-display-editors-in-columns-headers/CS/WindowsApplication1/InplaceEditorHelper/ColumnInplaceEditorHelper.cs#L125

ActiveEditor.Properties.Assign(_Item);
ActiveEditor.Properties.AutoHeight = false;
ActiveEditor.Location = bounds.Location;

winforms-layoutcontrol-show-ui-controls-in-tabbed-group-header/CS/Form1.cs#L34

riBE.Buttons[0].Caption = "Test";
riBE.AutoHeight = false;
buttonInfo.MouseDown += buttonInfo_MouseDown;

winforms-spreadsheet-assign-custom-in-place-editors/CS/Spreadsheet_CustomCellEditors/Form1.cs#L61

RepositoryItemSpinEdit repository = new RepositoryItemSpinEdit();
repository.AutoHeight = false;
repository.BorderStyle = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.BorderStyles.NoBorder;

winforms-spreadsheet-use-custom-cell-editors/CS/DevAVInvoicing/Form1.cs#L100

RepositoryItemSpinEdit editor = new RepositoryItemSpinEdit();
editor.AutoHeight = false;
editor.BorderStyle = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.BorderStyles.NoBorder;

VB.NET

winforms-grid-display-editors-in-columns-headers/VB/InplaceEditorHelper/ColumnInplaceEditorHelper.vb#L118

ActiveEditor.Properties.Assign(_Item)
ActiveEditor.Properties.AutoHeight = False
ActiveEditor.Location = bounds.Location

winforms-layoutcontrol-show-ui-controls-in-tabbed-group-header/VB/Form1.vb#L34

riBE.Buttons(0).Caption = "Test"
riBE.AutoHeight = False
AddHandler buttonInfo.MouseDown, AddressOf buttonInfo_MouseDown

how-to-create-a-buttonedit-descendant-that-can-show-a-multi-line-text-like-memoedit-e5150/VB/MultiLineButtonEdit.vb#L52

Set(value As Boolean)
    MyBase.AutoHeight = value
End Set

winforms-spreadsheet-assign-custom-in-place-editors/VB/Spreadsheet_CustomCellEditors/Form1.vb#L52

Dim repository As RepositoryItemSpinEdit = New RepositoryItemSpinEdit()
repository.AutoHeight = False
repository.BorderStyle = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.BorderStyles.NoBorder

winforms-spreadsheet-use-custom-cell-editors/VB/DevAVInvoicing/Form1.vb#L91

Dim editor As RepositoryItemSpinEdit = New RepositoryItemSpinEdit()
editor.AutoHeight = False
editor.BorderStyle = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.BorderStyles.NoBorder