Set background color of WPF Textbox in C# code

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How can I change the background and foreground colors of a WPF Textbox programmatically in C#?

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textBox1.Background = Brushes.Blue;
textBox1.Foreground = Brushes.Yellow;

WPF Foreground and Background is of type System.Windows.Media.Brush. You can set another color like this:

using System.Windows.Media;

textBox1.Background = Brushes.White;
textBox1.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White);
textBox1.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(0xFF, 0xFF, 0, 0));
textBox1.Background = System.Windows.SystemColors.MenuHighlightBrush;

I take it you are creating the TextBox in XAML?

In that case, you need to give the text box a name. Then in the code-behind you can then set the Background property using a variety of brushes. The simplest of which is the SolidColorBrush:

myTextBox.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White);

I know this has been answered in another SOF post. However, you could do this if you know the hexadecimal.

textBox1.Background = (SolidColorBrush)new BrushConverter().ConvertFromString("#082049");
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