datagridview - making a cell bold

Grant McConville

I am not sure how I can find out weather a cell is bold or not, and then change it without effecting anything else such as italics, underline etc. All I have at the moment is foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in grid.SelectedCells) { cell.Style.Font = new Font(grid.Font, FontStyle.Bold); } grid is my datagridview. I hope this is easy to understand, thanks

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Ashley Argile18y ago
Accepted answer
The following code will toggle the selected cells from Bold to Regular, however, DatagridView styles are a complex business involving a hierachy of properties and I would recommend reading this article on MSDN to gain a better understanding.

        foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in dataGridView1.SelectedCells)
            {
                if (cell.InheritedStyle.Font.Bold)
                    cell.Style.Font = new Font(cell.InheritedStyle.Font, FontStyle.Regular);
                else
                    cell.Style.Font = new Font(cell.InheritedStyle.Font, FontStyle.Bold);
            }

regards

Ashley
KrutarthP Patel16y ago
Great Help, thanks Mr. Ashley Argile. Given code works well.
Grant McConville18y ago
Thanks for your help, this is what I ended up with. FontStyle font; foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in grid.SelectedCells) { font = cell.InheritedStyle.Font.Style; if (cell.InheritedStyle.Font.Bold) font = (font & (~FontStyle.Bold)); else font = (font | FontStyle.Bold); cell.Style.Font = new Font(cell.InheritedStyle.Font, font);