WPF ListView turn off selection

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Is it possible to turn off the selection of a WPF ListView, so when user clicks row, the row is not highlighted?

ListView

I would like the row 1 to look just like row 0 when clicked.

Possibly related: can I style the look of the hover / selection? Eg. to replace the blue gradient hover look (line 3) with a custom solid color. I have found this and this, unfortunately not helping.

(Achieving the same without using ListView is acceptable too. I'd just like to be able to use logical scrolling and UI virtualization as ListView does)

The XAML for ListView is:

<ListView Height="280" Name="listView">
    <ListView.Resources>
        <!-- attempt to override selection color -->
        <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightColorKey}"
                         Color="Green" />
    </ListView.Resources>
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridView.Columns>
                <GridViewColumn Header="Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}" />
                <!-- more columns -->
            </GridView.Columns>
        </GridView>
     </ListView.View>
</ListView>
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13 Answers

Per Martin Konicek's comment, to fully disable the selection of the items in the simplest manner:

<ListView>
    <ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ListViewItem">
            <Setter Property="Focusable" Value="false"/>
        </Style>
    </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    ...
</ListView>

However if you still require the functionality of the ListView, like being able to select an item, then you can visually disable the styling of the selected item like so:

You can do this a number of ways, from changing the ListViewItem's ControlTemplate to just setting a style (much easier). You can create a style for the ListViewItems using the ItemContainerStyle and 'turn off' the background and border brush when it is selected.

<ListView>
    <ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
            <Style.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsSelected"
                         Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="Background"
                            Value="{x:Null}" />
                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush"
                            Value="{x:Null}" />
                </Trigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
        </Style>
    </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    ...
</ListView>

Also, unless you have some other way of notifying the user when the item is selected (or just for testing) you can add a column to represent the value:

<GridViewColumn Header="IsSelected"
                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type ListViewItem}}, Path=IsSelected}" />
user_904350

Okay, little late to the game, but none of these solutions quite did what I was trying to do. These solutions have a couple problems

  1. Disable the ListViewItem, which screws up the styles and disables all the children controls
  2. Remove from the hit-test stack, i.e. children controls never get a mouse-over or click
  3. Make it not focusable, this just plain didn't work for me?

I wanted a ListView with the grouping headers, and each ListViewItem should just be 'informational' without selection or hover over, but the ListViewItem has a button in it that I want to be click-able and have hover-over.

So, really what I want is the ListViewItem to not be a ListViewItem at all, So, I over rode the ListViewItem's ControlTemplate and just made it a simple ContentControl. 

<ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="ListViewItem">
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate>
                    <ContentControl Content="{Binding Content, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"/>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
         </Setter>
     </Style>
</ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
user_28031380

Below code disables ListViewItem row selection and also allows to add padding, margin etc. 

<ListView.ItemContainerStyle>                                                                              
   <Style TargetType="ListViewItem">                                                                                      
       <Setter Property="Template">                                                                                            
         <Setter.Value>                                                                                             
           <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">                                                                                                    
              <ListViewItem Padding="0" Margin="0">                                                                                                        
                  <ContentPresenter />
              </ListViewItem>
           </ControlTemplate>                                                          
         </Setter.Value>                                                                                       
         </Setter>
      </Style>                                                                      
  </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
user_53127470

Below code disable Focus on ListViewItem

<ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent" />
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                <ContentPresenter />
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

user_92130540 
        <ListView Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding Properties}" >
            <!--Disable selection of items-->
            <ListView.Resources>
                <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent" />
                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Transparent"/>
                    <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Center"/>
                    <Setter Property="Template">
                        <Setter.Value>
                            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                                <Grid Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">
                                    <Border Name="Selection" Visibility="Collapsed" />
                                    <!-- This is used when GridView is put inside the ListView -->
                                    <GridViewRowPresenter Grid.RowSpan="2"
                                      Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}"
                                      HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}"
                                      VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"
                                      SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}"/>

                                </Grid>
                            </ControlTemplate>
                        </Setter.Value>
                    </Setter>
                </Style>
            </ListView.Resources>
            <ListView.View>
                <GridView>
                    <GridViewColumn Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}"  />
                    <GridViewColumn Width="90" CellTemplateSelector="{StaticResource customCellTemplateSelector}"  />
                </GridView>
            </ListView.View>
        </ListView>
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