TextElement.Background Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows.Documents

Assembly:

PresentationFramework.dll

Gets or sets the brush used to fill the background of the content area.

public System.Windows.Media.Brush Background { get; set; }

Property Value

Brush

The brush used to fill the background of the content area, or null to not use a background brush. The default is null.

Examples

The following example shows how to set the Background attribute, using Paragraph as the example element.

<FlowDocumentReader>
  <FlowDocument>
    <Paragraph
      Background="Bisque"
      Foreground="DarkGreen"
      Padding="4"
    >
      <Run>
        This text has a foreground color of dark green, and a background color of bisque.
      </Run>
    </Paragraph>
  </FlowDocument>
</FlowDocumentReader>

The following figure shows how the preceding example renders.

The following example shows how to set the Background property programmatically.

Run run = new Run(
    "This text has a foreground color of dark green, and a background color of bisque.");
Paragraph par = new Paragraph(run);

par.Background = Brushes.Bisque;
par.Foreground = Brushes.DarkGreen;

Remarks

For a table of swatches that show the available predefined brush colors, see Brushes.

Dependency Property Information

Item	Value
Identifier field	BackgroundProperty
Metadata properties set to true	AffectsRender

Applies to

See also

• Foreground