Why is the fontstyle enumeration in C# missing bold italic?

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How do i set the font style of a font to bold italic?

I am unable to set the fontstyle of font to bold italic.. where and how can i set it >?

Ask duplicate question... still get 5 correct answers... accept none of them. — Trevor Elliott, Jan 26 '12 at 20:21

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 26 '12 at 20:00

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FontStyle is a Flags enumeration. You send bold and italic by or'ing them together: FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Italic

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answered Jan 26 '12 at 19:55

shf301

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '12 at 19:55

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Try

FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Italic

(FontStyle is decorated with FlagsAttribute which allows combining options this way)

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 26 '12 at 19:57

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The FontStyle is a Flags enum:

[FlagsAttribute]
public enum FontStyle

use it like

x.FontStyle = FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Italic;

OR

Button1.Font = new Font(FontFamily.GenericSansSerif,
            12.0F, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Italic);

answered Jan 26 '12 at 19:57

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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It is a bitmask enumeration. To combine members use the bit-wise OR operator (|) like this:

label1.Font = new Font(label1.Font, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Italic);

See also Using a bitmask in C#

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 26 '12 at 20:03

The FontStyle Enumeration uses the FlagsAttribute thus you can use bitwise operators to pass multiple FontStyles as a single parameter.

if (Button1.Font.Style != FontStyle.Bold || Button1.Font.Style != FontStyle.Italic)
            Button1.Font = new Font(Button1.Font, FontStyle.Bold | FontStyle.Italic);

Why is the fontstyle enumeration in C# missing bold italic?

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