#375 – Binding Something in a Tooltip to a Property on the Parent Control

You can use data binding to bind the value of a simple Tooltip property to some other property of the control.  But you might also want to use data binding when you create a Tooltip as a child element in XAML.

Suppose you want a Tooltip to include several labels and you want the Content of the second label to bind back to a property on the parent control.

You can do this by using the PlacementTarget of the Tooltip to find its parent and then set the DataContext of the Tooltip.

        <TextBox Text="Now is the winter of our discontent etc"
            Width="100" Margin="10">
            <TextBox.ToolTip>
                <ToolTip DataContext="{Binding Path=PlacementTarget, RelativeSource={x:Static RelativeSource.Self}}">
                    <StackPanel>
                        <Label FontWeight="Bold" Content="Full Text"/>
                        <Label Content="{Binding Text}"/>
                        <Label Content="--Gloster, in Richard III (Act I, Scene I)"/>
                    </StackPanel>
                </ToolTip>
            </TextBox.ToolTip>
        </TextBox>