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TextBlock not aligning text correctly C#

So I have a textblock that is receiving response text from a webclient

When I do this call in a browser I get nicely formatted responses

like this

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but when I do this in code and push it into my textblock I get this (note that all the data is there just scrolled off of the screenshot)

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Here is my textblock XAML

 <TextBlock xml:space="preserve"  Text="{Binding toolResponseText,Mode=TwoWay}"/>

I was hoping the space preserve line would have fixed this but it didn't.

Solution

  • No, xml:space = preserve is talking about whitespace within the XAML. It's not useful to you here.

    The important point is that the browser is displaying it with a monospaced font, whereas you're using a variable-width font.

    Try:

    FontFamily="Consolas"

    within your XAML. (If that font family doesn't change the appearance, find another one which does, and is still monospaced...)