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Get the Height of the WPF Expander Header

I need to get the Height of the WPF Expander.Header, not the whole Expander just the Height of the Header.

There is no property to get it because the Expander.Header + Expander.Content is the Expander.Height.

What would you do to get the Expander.Header Height ?

Solution

  • If your expander isn't templated, that's a Visual tree:

    Expander { Border { DockPanel { ToggleButton, ContentPresenter {...} } } }

    All you need is to get that ToggleButton. It's easy using VisualTreeHelper:

    var border = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(expander, 0);
var dockpanel = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(border, 0);
var togglebutton = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(dockpanel, /*0*/); // it may be not 0th, so please enumerate all children using VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(dockpanel) and find that ToggleButton
return togglebutton.ActualHeight;

    Edit

    Also, I'd like to accent on using ActualHeight, not Height, because Height is not double.IsNaN (in XAML, auto) only if set explicitly in code or XAML