How to: Specify Control Location in Canvas Controls
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The Canvas container is the simplest of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) container controls and allows absolute placement of controls. All controls placed on a Canvas control maintain a fixed distance from one of the Canvas corners. This topic describes how to specify the location of a control that is contained in a Canvas control.
To specify control location in Canvas controls
If you do not already have a Canvas container, drag a Canvas container onto your Window from the Toolbox.
Position a control in the Canvas container.
In XAML view, set either the Canvas.Top or Canvas.Bottom property.
In XAML view, set either the Canvas.Right and Canvas.Left property.
These properties specify the distance from the control edge to the canvas edge. For example, setting the Canvas.Top property to 31 specifies that the top edge of the control is 31 units from the top edge of the canvas. By setting one vertical property (Canvas.Top or Canvas.Bottom) and one horizontal property (Canvas.Left or Canvas.Right), you specify the corner that the control maintains a fixed distance from.
Note
If you set more than one horizontal or vertical property, one of them will be ignored.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Construct a Layout Based on Absolute Positioning
How to: Use Attached Properties