How to make a column's width 50% of the grid's width?

How to make a column's width 50% of the grid's width?

• dotnetdev

  If you really want one column to be 1/2 the width even with other columns present, you can also use a value converter. By binding the width of the grid to the width of the column, and using a value converter to apply the 1/2 you can control the column width. You can also do any other math you need in the value converter. You can pass a parameter to the value converter as well, which would allow you to do any proportion.
  
  

• Some Developers

  You can use 2 columns with <columnDefinition width="*"> and each of them will have 50% of the grid's width.
  
  
  
  

• johnrballard

  You can also just say

  <ColumnDefinition Width=".5*" /> for 50%.

  Making two columns is easy if you're going for 50%...but for complicated values, like 17% and 83% you can do the following.

  <ColumnDefinition Width=".17*" />

  <ColumnDefinition Width=".83*" />

  
  

• Paul Deen

  And you should also check into the following syntax:

  <ColumnDefinition Width="100"/>
  <ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"/>
  <ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"/>

  Which will lock the first column to 100 pixels and spread out the following two columns evenly... Very cool...

  
  
• How to make a column's width 50% of the grid's width?