Only the text in a ListBox item is selectable, the space outside of the text is not selectable

Question

I have a WPF ListBox whose items are TextBlocks. When I click on the text the SelectionChanged handler is called as expected. However, if I click inside the item, but not directly over the text the handler is not called. This is more apparent when the text items are of widely varying lengths. If I have two items:

foo
exclamation

The "foo" item has a lot of space to the right which doesn't respond to the click

<DataTemplate x:Key="NameTemplate">
  <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
</DataTemplate>

...

<ListBox SelectionChanged="ListItemSelected" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource NameTemplate}"/>

Answer 1

I found that the following works, but it seems rather verbose...

<ListBox SelectionChanged="ListItemSelected" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource NameTemplate}">
  <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem" BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type ListBoxItem}}">
       <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" />
    </Style>
  </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
</ListBox>

Any ideas on how to do this more concisely? Or a way to put this in the ItemTemplate? I couldn't find a way to do the same in the template.

The orig without that was just:

<ListBox SelectionChanged="ListItemSelected" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource NameTemplate}"/>