RichEditControl.RtfText Property

Gets or sets the formatted text content of the control.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.v23.2.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.PivotGrid, DevExpress.Win.RichEdit, DevExpress.Win.TreeMap

Declaration

C#

[Bindable(true)]
[Browsable(false)]
public string RtfText { get; set; }

VB.NET

<Bindable(True)>
<Browsable(False)>
Public Property RtfText As String

Property Value

Type	Description
String	A string, containing the document’s content in rich text format.

Remarks

Use this property to load an RTF content to the RichEditControl.

The RtfText property value is loaded as a new document in the rich text format. Check the RtfText property value when the RichEditControl.DocumentLoaded event handler, i.e. when the document is fully loaded.

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View Example

Import.cs

            string rtfString = @"{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1049
{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}
{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue255;}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\b\f0\fs32 Test.\cf0\b0\f1\fs20\par}";
            document.RtfText = rtfString;

Import.vb

Dim rtfString As String = "{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1049{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue255;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\b\f0\fs32 Test.\cf0\b0\f1\fs20\par}"
document.RtfText = rtfString

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

word-processing-merge-documents-with-different-headers-and-footers/CS/DocumentMerger/Form1.cs#L26

    Document mergedDoc = DocumentsMerger.MergeDouments(filenames);
    richEditControl1.RtfText = mergedDoc.RtfText;
}

how-to-load-a-document-into-the-richedit-control/CS/LoadDocumentExample/Form1.cs#L46

            #region #fromstring
            richEditControl1.RtfText = @"{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1049
{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}

VB.NET

word-processing-merge-documents-with-different-headers-and-footers/VB/DocumentMerger/Form1.vb#L21

    Dim mergedDoc As Document = DocumentsMerger.MergeDouments(filenames)
    richEditControl1.RtfText = mergedDoc.RtfText
End Sub

how-to-load-a-document-into-the-richedit-control/VB/LoadDocumentExample/Form1.vb#L41

'            #Region "#fromstring"
richEditControl1.RtfText = "{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1049" &
                            "{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}" &