winforms: aligning of column headers

troels_sorensen

Hi. Is there any way to center-align columnheaders in a datagrid while the text in the rows of the column is still rigth-aligned? I found out using datagridTextBox.Alignment, but this aligns both header AND text in the rows... any help?

Heath Stewart

You could create your own DataGridColumnStyle derivatives and ignore the Alignment property. Just derive from the existing ones like DataGridTextBoxColumn and DataGridBoolColumn to avoid having to implement the rest of the behavior.

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troels_sorensen

but the columnstyke also aligns both the text and the headers, right? So unless i override the paint event, I can't do what i want....

Heath Stewart

In the override for DataGridColumnStyle.Alignment, try returning HorizontalAlignment.Left. The default painting procedure should use that to paint the text; otherwise, yes, you will have to do the text painting yourself (but that is pretty easy to do). See Graphics.MeasureString and Graphics.DrawString for more information.

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