Text areas and hyperlinks?

Question

I have two quick, easy questions on C# in Visual Studio. First, is there anything like the label, but for an area of text in the program? I would like to have multiple lines of text in my program, but can only seem to accomplish it with a DotNetBar label with wordwrap turned on.

Second, is there any way to have a hyperlink in the middle of the text without using a link label? If I wanted to generate text like "An update is available, please visit http://example.com to download it!", is it possible to make the link clickable without having to position a link label in the middle of the text?

Web application? Windows application? – John Saunders Jan 01 '12 at 04:05 — John Saunders, Jan 01 '12 at 04:05

keyboardP · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-01T04:47:18.870

You can use a LinkLabel and set its LinkArea property:

 //LinkArea (start index, length)
 myLinkLabel.LinkArea = new LinkArea(37, 18);
 myLinkLabel.Text = "An update is available, please visit http://example.com to download it!";

The above will make the http://example.com a link whilst the rest of the text in normal.

Edit to answer comment: There are various ways of handling the link. One way is to give the link a description (the URL) and then launch the URL using Process.Start.

myLinkLabel.LinkArea = new System.Windows.Forms.LinkArea(37, 18);
myLinkLabel.LinkClicked += new LinkLabelLinkClickedEventHandler(myLinkLabel_LinkClicked);
myLinkLabel.Text = "An update is available, please visit http://example.com to download it!";       
myLinkLabel.Links[0].Description = "http://example.com";

And the event handler can read the description and launch the site:

void myLinkLabel_LinkClicked(object sender, LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs e)
{
    Process.Start(e.Link.Description);
}

Thanks, the link isn't working though when I click it. Also, could you update the answer to include that I can, as kishorejangid said, set the autoresize property to false to make it multi-lined. — mowwwalker, Jan 01 '12 at 04:41

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 01 '12 at 04:27

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You may try RichTextBox control.

string text = "This is the extract of text located at http://www.google.com and http://www.yahoo.com";
richTextBox1.Text   = text;

richTextBox1.ReadOnly = true;
richTextBox1.LinkClicked += (sa, ea) =>
{
 System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ea.LinkText);
};

answered Jan 01 '12 at 04:27

KV Prajapati

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Thanks, but I don't want the white background the richtextbox has, and I can't change it to transparen.t – mowwwalker Jan 01 '12 at 04:42
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@Walkerneo - Yes can't change transparent. set richTextBox1.BackColor = this.BackColor; (parent control background) – KV Prajapati Jan 01 '12 at 04:50

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 01 '12 at 04:24

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You can use the normal label and make the AutoSize property as false. And then adjust your width and height it will wrap by it self

answered Jan 01 '12 at 04:24

Kishore Kumar

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 01 '12 at 04:23

I assume you are using doing a windows application, and not a web application.

In C# you can create a normal textbox by dragging and dropping it onto your form, change its property to multi-line, and make it read only. Thats what I always do.

As for adding a link to the text without a linklabel. There is a way to add links to textboxes. You can check out a pretty good tutorial at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/LinkTextBox.aspx/

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