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Parvind
Parvind

Reputation: 21

WPF- How to apply Style to Multiple controls within a Panel

I need to apply style to different controls within a Stack Panel. They are all of different type i.e. TreeView,Listview,ComboBox etc. Is there a way I can apply a style at StackPanel level to be applicable for these controls. I don't want to apply style individually to these controls. Is there any way to accomplish this?

Thanks..

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1008

Answers (2)

Jean-Louis Mbaka
Jean-Louis Mbaka

Reputation: 1612

You can do it like this by declaring the Styles withing the StackPanel Resources. You have to declare each Style without a key for them to be automatically applied to every target control within the StackPanel. 

<StackPanel>
     <StackPanel.Resources>
      <!-- Styles declared here will be scoped to the content of the stackpanel  -->

      <!-- This is the example of style declared without a key, it will be applied to every TreeView. Of course you'll have to add Setters etc -->
      <Style TargetType="TreeView">
      </Style>
     </StackPanel.Resources>

     <!-- Content -->

     <!-- This treeview will have the style declared within the StackPanel Resources applied to it-->
     <TreeView />
</StackPanel>

Upvotes: 3

Steve Greatrex
Steve Greatrex

Reputation: 15999

As Jean-Louis says, you can specify a Style within the StackPanel resource dictionary and it will only be applied to matching elements within that StackPanel.

In order to have a single Style match all of your controls, you will need to specify it with a TargetType of a common base class for all of those controls, such as Control

<StackPanel>
  <StackPanel.Resources>
    <Style TargetType="Control">
      <!-- Setters etc here -->
    </Style>
  </StackPanel.Resources>

<!-- Controls here -->

</StackPanel>

Upvotes: 0

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