RichTextBlock.SelectionHighlightColor Property

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls

Gets or sets the brush used to highlight the selected text.

public:
 property SolidColorBrush ^ SelectionHighlightColor { SolidColorBrush ^ get(); void set(SolidColorBrush ^ value); };

SolidColorBrush SelectionHighlightColor();

void SelectionHighlightColor(SolidColorBrush value);

public SolidColorBrush SelectionHighlightColor { get; set; }

var solidColorBrush = richTextBlock.selectionHighlightColor;
richTextBlock.selectionHighlightColor = solidColorBrush;

Public Property SelectionHighlightColor As SolidColorBrush

<RichTextBlock SelectionHighlightColor="{StaticResource resourceName}"/>
- or -
<RichTextBlock SelectionHighlightColor="colorString"/>

Property Value

SolidColorBrush

The brush used to highlight the selected text. The default is a null brush from a pure code perspective, but the default text styles for RichTextBlock content apply a theme resource brush for this in a runtime instance of a RichTextBlock control.

Remarks

A default text style sets the default selection highlight color to the system resource TextSelectionHighlightColorThemeBrush. To change the selection highlight color for all editable text controls in your app, you can override the TextSelectionHighlightColorThemeBrush system resource in App.xaml. This will affect PasswordBox, TextBox, and RichEditBox controls as well as RichTextBlock content. For more info, see XAML theme resources.

See also

• Use brushes