Silverlight: CanGrow property for Checkbox text?

Question

I have a grid (layoutroot) of two columns. I have a list of checkboxes in each of these columns. If a checkbox is checked I need to add some text below it. I was unable to find a way to add a textbox below a checkbox dynamically which would not overlap with the checkbox right below it so I thought of adding the text to be added to the CheckBox text and when this text exceeds the width, it should move to a new line.

Now, this is not the case right now. The checkbox trims any text that is larger than its width. Is there are way to let a checkbox grow in height like a "cangrow" property of reports ? Or is there a workaround that would allow me to add a textbox in between two existing checkboxes and expanding the layout vertically ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

TextBlock has similar feature to what you refer as "cangrow" in reports. It is TextWrapping property. Therefore, you can set CheckBox's content to be a TextBlock control to achieve that growing text effect :

<CheckBox>
    <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Some long text here"/>
</CheckBox>

Answer 2

Add the TextBlock in the designer, then set it's visibility to collapsed. Then when you want to display it, set the visibility to visible.

<StackPanel>
<Checkbox />
<TextBlock x:Name="txtMessage" Visibility="Collapsed" Text="Your text here"/>
</StackPanel>