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Mike Baxter
Mike Baxter

Reputation: 7258

Remove dotted line on button

How do you remove the dotted line that appears on buttons when they are selected (either via tab or by clicking them)?

This question is for winforms - any help is appreciated.

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Edit: I apologize for the duplicate question. I did search for an answer, but I did not know this issue was due to the 'focus' of the button. As I result I was not finding the appropriate answers.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 4333

Answers (6)

N Kozlov-Evans
N Kozlov-Evans

Reputation: 159

The only answer here that really works without having to hack (moving focus to another control) is Wongsathon Tuntanakan's answer.

I refer to his answer and, as a bit of extra, I've converted his code to VB:

Public Class YourButtonClass
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Button

    Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property ShowFocusCues As Boolean
        Get
            Return False
        End Get
    End Property
End Class

Upvotes: 0

Ragul s
Ragul s

Reputation: 21

You can set the ShowFocusRectangle peoperty to false.

Upvotes: 0

Wongsathon Tuntanakan
Wongsathon Tuntanakan

Reputation: 71

create custom control add ShowFocusCues and build to use

Example

public class button : System.Windows.Forms.Button
    {
        protected override bool ShowFocusCues
        {
            get
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
     }

Upvotes: 1

coolmine
coolmine

Reputation: 4463

This happens because your Button gains focus. It is possible to remove it but that means giving the focus to something else when your button's focus Enter event is triggered.

private void button1_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // give focus to something else
}

The problem with that is that you lose the ability to use the keyboard in order to select the button (using tab).

Moreover, a more correct approach would be to give focus to the last control that had focus instead of passing it fixed one.

Upvotes: 1

Nicolas Tyler
Nicolas Tyler

Reputation: 10552

have you tried to remove the focus from the button.

just call Focus(); when the button is clicked.

Upvotes: 1

evgenyl
evgenyl

Reputation: 8107

Look for button border settings.

I do not get this border, if I set the BorderSize to 0 in the FlatAppearance section

From Remove button border on tab c# winforms

Upvotes: 0

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