Disable selecting in WPF DataGrid

svick picture svick · Mar 23, 2010 · Viewed 87.2k times · Source

How can I disable selecting in a WPFTooklit's DataGrid? I tried modifying the solution that works for ListView (from WPF ListView turn off selection), but that doesn't work:

<tk:DataGrid>
    <tk:DataGrid.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type tk:DataGridRow}">
            <Setter Property="Focusable" Value="false"/>
        </Style>
    </tk:DataGrid.ItemContainerStyle>
    <tk:DataGrid.CellStyle>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type tk:DataGridCell}">
            <Setter Property="Focusable" Value="false"/>
        </Style>
    </tk:DataGrid.CellStyle>
</tk:DataGrid>

Answer

Alex picture Alex · Mar 28, 2012

The clean way would be, to just override the styles of the row and the cell

<DataGrid.Resources>
    <ResourceDictionary>
        <Style x:Key="{x:Type DataGridCell}" TargetType="{x:Type DataGridCell}">
            <Setter Property="Background" Value="{x:Null}" />
            <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{x:Null}" />
            <Style.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="{x:Null}" />
                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{x:Null}" />
                </Trigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
        </Style>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type DataGridRow}">
            <Setter Property="Background" Value="{x:Null}" />
            <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{x:Null}" />
            <Style.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="{x:Null}" />
                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{x:Null}" />
                </Trigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
        </Style>
    </ResourceDictionary>
</DataGrid.Resources>