TextBoxBase.SelectionBrush Property
Definition
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Gets or sets the brush that highlights selected text.
public:
property System::Windows::Media::Brush ^ SelectionBrush { System::Windows::Media::Brush ^ get(); void set(System::Windows::Media::Brush ^ value); };public System.Windows.Media.Brush SelectionBrush { get; set; }member this.SelectionBrush : System.Windows.Media.Brush with get, setPublic Property SelectionBrush As BrushProperty Value
The brush that highlights selected text.
Examples
The following example creates a TextBox and adds the text, "This is some text." The example sets the SelectionBrush property to red and the SelectionOpacity property to 0.5 to customize the appearance of selected text.
<TextBox SelectionBrush="Red" SelectionOpacity="0.5"
Foreground="Blue" CaretBrush="Blue">
This is some text.
</TextBox>
The following illustration shows the TextBox from the preceding example with its text selected.
Selected text in a TextBox with SelectionBrush set to red
Remarks
You can specify the brush that highlights selected text by setting the SelectionBrush and SelectionOpacity properties. The SelectionOpacity property specifies the opacity of the SelectionBrush.
