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Jiew Meng
Jiew Meng

Reputation: 88367

How to target all controls (WPF Styles)

Can I specify a style that applies to all elements? I tried 

<Style TargetType="Control">
    <Setter Property="Margin" Value="0,5" />
</Style>

But it did nothing

Upvotes: 98

Views: 46722

Answers (2)

qazwsx123
qazwsx123

Reputation: 311

As Fredrik Hedblad answered you can effect all elements that inherited from control.

But you can't apply style for textblock and button with the same style for example.

to do that:

    <Style x:Key="DefaultStyle" TargetType="{x:Type FrameworkElement}">
        <Setter Property="Control.Margin" Value="50"/>
    </Style>
    <Style TargetType="TextBlock" BasedOn="{StaticResource DefaultStyle}"/>
    <Style TargetType="Button" BasedOn="{StaticResource DefaultStyle}"/>

Upvotes: 11

Fredrik Hedblad
Fredrik Hedblad

Reputation: 84674

The Style you created is only targeting Control and not elements that derive from Control. When you don't set the x:Key it's implicitly set to the TargetType, so in your case x:Key="{x:Type Control}".

There isn't any direct way to specify a Style that targets all elements that derive from the TargetType of the Style. You have some other options.

If you have the following Style

<Style x:Key="ControlBaseStyle" TargetType="{x:Type Control}">
    <Setter Property="Margin" Value="50" />
</Style>

You can target all Buttons for example

<Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}" BasedOn="{StaticResource ControlBaseStyle}"/>

or use the style directly on any element, e.g. Button 

<Button Style="{StaticResource ControlBaseStyle}" ...>

Upvotes: 131

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