Create Rich Text Controls

Rich text controls allow you to customize the font face, size, weight, color, style, alignment, and other attributes of the text displayed on a form.

You can create rich text controls using the <RichTextControl> tag.

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<RichTextControl>
    <Block>1</Block>
    <Row>1</Row>
    <RowSpan>8</RowSpan>
    <Column>0</Column>
    <ColumnSpan>3</ColumnSpan>
    <Caption>
        <Section xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
            xml:space="preserve" HasTrailingParagraphBreakOnPaste="False">
            <Paragraph FontSize="10" 
                    FontFamily="Portable User Interface" 
                    Foreground="#FF000000" 
                    FontWeight="Normal" 
                    FontStyle="Normal" 
                    FontStretch="Normal" 
                    TextAlignment="Left">
                <Run Foreground="#FF000000" 
                    FontWeight="Bold" 
                    Text="Text 1" />
                <Run Foreground="#FF0000FF" 
                    Text="Text 2" />
            </Paragraph>
        </Section>
    </Caption>
</RichTextControl>

Rich text controls use the <Block>, <Row>, <RowSpan>, <Column>, and <ColumnSpan> tags that are available in other controls.

There can only be one <Caption> tag and one <Section> tag used on a form. Multiple <Paragraph> tags can be defined within a <Section> tag, to allow you to group run tags into multiple paragraphs. Each paragraph is separated by a line break. Each <Section> tag can also have multiple <Run> tags defined within it, to allow you to have multiple text formats within a paragraph.

Properties that can be applied to <Paragraph> and <Run> tags
Attribute	Used By	Possible Values	Default Value
FontSize	Both	Any positive, non-decimal, integer value	10
FontFamily	Both	Arial Arial Black Calibri Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Lucida Sans Unicode Portable User Interface Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana	Times New Roman
Foreground	Both	Black Red Blue Green Yellow	Black
FontWeight	Both	Black Bold ExtraBlack ExtraBold ExtraLight Light Medium Normal SemiBold Thin	Normal
FontStyle	Both	Italic Normal	Normal
FontStretch	Both	Condensed Expanded ExtraCondensed ExtraExpanded Normal SemiCondensed SemiExpanded UltraCondensed UltraExpanded	Normal
TextAlignment	Both	Center Justified Left Right	Left
TextDecorations	Run	Underline	Underline
Text	Run	Any text content. If no values are provided, the form will contain empty text.

If a property is applied to a paragraph, all of the <Run> tags inherit the formatting, by default. If a <Run> tag has properties applied to it, the formatting overrides the properties defined in the <Paragraph> tag, by default.