How to target all controls (WPF Styles)
The Style
you created is only targeting Control
and not elements that derive from Control
. When you don't set the x:Key
it's implicitly set to the TargetType
, so in your case x:Key="{x:Type Control}"
.
There isn't any direct way to specify a Style
that targets all elements that derive from the TargetType
of the Style
. You have some other options.
If you have the following Style
<Style x:Key="ControlBaseStyle" TargetType="{x:Type Control}"> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="50" /></Style>
You can target all Buttons
for example
<Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}" BasedOn="{StaticResource ControlBaseStyle}"/>
or use the style directly on any element, e.g. Button
<Button Style="{StaticResource ControlBaseStyle}" ...>
As Fredrik Hedblad answered you can effect all elements that inherited from control.
But you can't apply style for textblock and button with the same style for example.
to do that:
<Style x:Key="DefaultStyle" TargetType="{x:Type FrameworkElement}"> <Setter Property="Control.Margin" Value="50"/> </Style> <Style TargetType="TextBlock" BasedOn="{StaticResource DefaultStyle}"/> <Style TargetType="Button" BasedOn="{StaticResource DefaultStyle}"/>