List every available font in a dropdown box
Hi,
In this post I’ll show you how can generate a list with every font that’s installed on your pc in your ASP.NET page or windows application. You need the following namespaces so don’t forget to include them.
using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Text;
Now I’ll show you the sourcecode:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (!this.IsPostBack) { //Create an instance of this class, this contains all the fonts InstalledFontCollection fonts = new InstalledFontCollection(); //create a FontFamily variable and run through each available family foreach (FontFamily family in fonts.Families) { //and add that family to the dropdownbox lstFonts.Items.Add(family.Name); } } //change the font-family style of the label's text. this.lblTest.Style["font-family"] = lstFonts.SelectedItem.Text; }
I added a combobox to the page and enabled the AutoPostBack propperty. This way a PostBack is generated every time the user selects another font. With every different selection the Page_Load event is raised. This isn’t the best way to do this, but good enough for this example.
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