Stopping WPF TextBox from growing with text

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I am trying to modify my simple control so that the text box does not grow as the user types in long text. I took a look at some solutions posted here at Stackoverflow that suggest using a Grid and an invisible Border and binding the Width of the text box to the ActualWidth of the Border, but I can't seem to get it to work in my setup.

Here is the xaml of my control:

<StackPanel Margin="5,0">
<WrapPanel Margin="0,0,0,5">
  <TextBlock Foreground="White" Margin="0,0,2,0">TEXT</TextBlock>
  <TextBlock Foreground="#FF0099CC" FontWeight="Bold">MORE TEXT</TextBlock>
</WrapPanel>
<Border Margin="2,4,0,4" BorderThickness="1" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" Background="Black"
        BorderBrush="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.ControlDarkBrushKey}}">
  <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
    <Image Source="..\Resources\zoom.png" Width="13"/>
    <TextBox Foreground="White" Background="Black" BorderBrush="Transparent">THIS IS SOME TEXT</TextBox>
  </StackPanel>
</Border>
</StackPanel>

Any ideas? I need the zoom.png to appear "inside" of the text box so I use a horizontal stack panel and just place the image and text box side by side, both surrounded by the same border.

Is there a way for me to stop my text box from auto growing as text is typed?

Thanks.

UPDATE:

Below is the xaml I am testing with.

<Window x:Class="Desktop.Shell"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:composite="http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF"
    Title="MyShell" Height="50" Width="900"
    WindowStyle="None"
    ShowInTaskbar="False"        
    AllowsTransparency="True"
    Background="Transparent"
    ResizeMode="CanResizeWithGrip"
    WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen">
  <Border BorderBrush="Black"
                BorderThickness="1.5"
                CornerRadius="5"
                Background="Gray">
    <ItemsControl composite:RegionManager.RegionName="MainRegion">
      <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
          <WrapPanel></WrapPanel>
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
      </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    </ItemsControl>
  </Border>
</Window>


<UserControl x:Class="Desktop.SearchTextBox"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Height="50" Margin="0">
  <StackPanel Margin="5,0">
    <WrapPanel Margin="0,0,0,5">
      <TextBlock Foreground="White" Margin="0,0,2,0">TEXT</TextBlock>
      <TextBlock Foreground="#FF0099CC" FontWeight="Bold">MORE TEXT</TextBlock>
    </WrapPanel>
    <Border Margin="2,4,0,4" BorderThickness="1" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" Background="Black"
        BorderBrush="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.ControlDarkBrushKey}}">
        <Grid x:Name="grdTest">
          <Image HorizontalAlignment="Left" Source="..\Resources\zoom.png" Width="13"/>
          <TextBox Margin="16,0,0,0"  Foreground="White" Background="Black" BorderBrush="Transparent" Width="{Binding ElementName=grdTest, Path=ActualWidth}">THIS IS SOME TEXT</TextBox>
        </Grid>
    </Border>
  </StackPanel>
</UserControl>

I just add my user control to the Window's MainRegion.

7 Answers

Try to put ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" inside Grid.

I had a very similar issue, and it turned out that my Window property "SizeToContent" was set to "WidthAndHeight", I removed setting that property, (which then defaults to "Manual") and this fixed my similar issue.

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