Right-aligned labels in WinForms

Question

The most obvious way to right-align a Label in WinForms doesn\'t work: setting anchor to Top/Bottom Right and TextAlign to TopRight. If the text changes the lab

Answer 1

Attach an event handler to the labels' SizeChanged event:

private void label1_SizeChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    label1.Location = new Point(Your_Anchor_Point - label1.Width, label1.Location.Y);
}

To be more DPI friendly consider using some other control as the anchor point, i.e.

label1.Location = new Point(dataGridView1.Location.X + dataGridView1.Width - label1.Width, label1.Location.Y);

to align to the RH side of the dgv.

(BTW: I tried the Paint & TextChanged events but they seemed to sometimes get confused - probably something to do with event order particularly on opening a new form.)