Button Styles and Templates

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This topic describes the styles and templates for the Button control. You can modify the default ControlTemplate to give the control a unique appearance. For more information, see Customizing the Appearance of an Existing Control by Using a ControlTemplate.

Button Parts

The Button control does not have any named parts.

Button States

The following table lists the visual states for the Button control.

VisualState Name

VisualStateGroup Name

Description

Normal

CommonStates

The default state.

MouseOver

CommonStates

The mouse pointer is positioned over the control.

Pressed

CommonStates

The control is pressed.

Disabled

CommonStates

The control is disabled.

Focused

FocusStates

The control has focus.

Unfocused

FocusStates

The control does not have focus.

Default Style and Template

The following shows the XML namespace mapping that you have to specify when you work with styles and templates.

<!-- XML Namespace mapping. -->
xmlns:vsm="clr-namespace:System.Windows;assembly=System.Windows"
NoteNote:

The default templates still specify the vsm: XML namespace mapping for the VisualStateManager element for legacy reasons. You can however, use the VisualStateManager element without specifying the vsm: mapping.

The following XAML shows the default style and template for the Button control.

<Style TargetType="Button">
      <Setter Property="Background" Value="#FF1F3B53"/>
      <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="#FF000000"/>
      <Setter Property="Padding" Value="3"/>
      <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
      <Setter Property="BorderBrush">
          <Setter.Value>
              <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
                  <GradientStop Color="#FFA3AEB9" Offset="0"/>
                  <GradientStop Color="#FF8399A9" Offset="0.375"/>
                  <GradientStop Color="#FF718597" Offset="0.375"/>
                  <GradientStop Color="#FF617584" Offset="1"/>
              </LinearGradientBrush>
          </Setter.Value>
      </Setter>
      <Setter Property="Template">
          <Setter.Value>
              <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
                  <Grid>
                      <vsm:VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                          <vsm:VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
                              <vsm:VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
                              <vsm:VisualState x:Name="MouseOver">
                                  <Storyboard>
                                      <DoubleAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundAnimation" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To="1"/>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundGradient" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Rectangle.Fill).(GradientBrush.GradientStops)[1].(GradientStop.Color)" To="#F2FFFFFF"/>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundGradient" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Rectangle.Fill).(GradientBrush.GradientStops)[2].(GradientStop.Color)" To="#CCFFFFFF"/>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundGradient" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Rectangle.Fill).(GradientBrush.GradientStops)[3].(GradientStop.Color)" To="#7FFFFFFF"/>
                                  </Storyboard>
                              </vsm:VisualState>
                              <vsm:VisualState x:Name="Pressed">
                                  <Storyboard>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="Background" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Border.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)" To="#FF6DBDD1"/>
                                      <DoubleAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundAnimation" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To="1"/>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundGradient" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Rectangle.Fill).(GradientBrush.GradientStops)[0].(GradientStop.Color)" To="#D8FFFFFF"/>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundGradient" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Rectangle.Fill).(GradientBrush.GradientStops)[1].(GradientStop.Color)" To="#C6FFFFFF"/>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundGradient" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Rectangle.Fill).(GradientBrush.GradientStops)[2].(GradientStop.Color)" To="#8CFFFFFF"/>
                                      <ColorAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="BackgroundGradient" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Rectangle.Fill).(GradientBrush.GradientStops)[3].(GradientStop.Color)" To="#3FFFFFFF"/>
                                  </Storyboard>
                              </vsm:VisualState>
                              <vsm:VisualState x:Name="Disabled">
                                  <Storyboard>
                                      <DoubleAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="DisabledVisualElement" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To=".55"/>
                                  </Storyboard>
                              </vsm:VisualState>
                          </vsm:VisualStateGroup>
                          <vsm:VisualStateGroup x:Name="FocusStates">
                              <vsm:VisualState x:Name="Focused">
                                  <Storyboard>
                                      <DoubleAnimation Duration="0" Storyboard.TargetName="FocusVisualElement" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" To="1"/>
                                  </Storyboard>
                              </vsm:VisualState>
                              <vsm:VisualState x:Name="Unfocused" />
                          </vsm:VisualStateGroup>
                      </vsm:VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                      <Border x:Name="Background" CornerRadius="3" Background="White" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}">
                          <Grid Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"  Margin="1">
                              <Border Opacity="0"  x:Name="BackgroundAnimation" Background="#FF448DCA" />
                              <Rectangle x:Name="BackgroundGradient" >
                                  <Rectangle.Fill>
                                      <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint=".7,0" EndPoint=".7,1">
                                          <GradientStop Color="#FFFFFFFF" Offset="0" />
                                          <GradientStop Color="#F9FFFFFF" Offset="0.375" />
                                          <GradientStop Color="#E5FFFFFF" Offset="0.625" />
                                          <GradientStop Color="#C6FFFFFF" Offset="1" />
                                      </LinearGradientBrush>
                                  </Rectangle.Fill>
                              </Rectangle>
                          </Grid>
                      </Border>
                      <ContentPresenter
                              x:Name="contentPresenter"
                              Content="{TemplateBinding Content}"
                              ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}"
                              VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"
                              HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}"
                              Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}"/>
                      <Rectangle x:Name="DisabledVisualElement" RadiusX="3" RadiusY="3" Fill="#FFFFFFFF" Opacity="0" IsHitTestVisible="false" />
                      <Rectangle x:Name="FocusVisualElement" RadiusX="2" RadiusY="2" Margin="1" Stroke="#FF6DBDD1" StrokeThickness="1" Opacity="0" IsHitTestVisible="false" />
                  </Grid>
              </ControlTemplate>
          </Setter.Value>
      </Setter>
  </Style>