One basic styling rule for all conrols in WPF

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I would like to do something like this:

XML

<Style TargetType="Control">
  <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center"></Setter>
</Style>

Is this possible? It doesn't work this way...
I know I could write for every control something like the following:

XML

<Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}" BasedOn="{StaticResource M<ControlBaseStyle}"/>

But I have 10 different controls and I don't really want to do this.

Any ideas?

Thank you!
Markus

Posted 22-Aug-12 3:18am

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-22T03:25:00

You can't do this, but you can create one style and then use it for other controls.

If you have the following Style

XML

<Style x:Key="ControlBaseStyle" TargetType="{x:Type Control}">
    <Setter Property="Margin" Value="50" />
</Style>

You can target all Buttons for instance

XML

<Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}" BasedOn="{StaticResource ControlBaseStyle}"/>

You still need to add the style for each control type, but you can make it so the actual style is only there once.