How to disable highlighting in datagridview headers

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I have binded data to datagridview.

It works fine but my problem is that when I place my mouse pointer over column header it automatically get highlighted with blue color.

How to disable that automatic highlighting when mouse pointer is place over the column header

How to get rid of this problem

Posted 13-Mar-14 23:10pm

KUMAR619

Updated 4-Oct-22 10:49am

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vsrikanth87 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-13T23:23:00

Solution 1

hope this helps u

DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.SelectionBackColor = DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor
DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.SelectionForeColor = DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.ForeColor

Posted 13-Mar-14 23:23pm

vsrikanth87

Marcin Kozub · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-13T23:23:00

Solution 2

Try to set DataGridView.EnableHeadersVisualStyles to False.

Posted 13-Mar-14 23:23pm

Marcin Kozub

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John . Peak 1-Nov-23 8:07am

Thanks a lot!
It works for me! I've just switched from 4.6 to 4.8 and this sh*t happened
Both solutions 2 and 3 were usefull

raddevus · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-04T10:49:00

The question was asked 8 years ago, but I have an answer for it now in 2022.

Here's the deal. I upgraded my Windows Forms app (which uses a DataGridView) to use .NET 4.8.
I didn't change anything else in the app, but suddenly when I click an item in the DataGridView it automatically highlights the COLUMN HEADER in dark blue.

Previous versions of .NET did not do this to DataGridView.

I had to find a way around this annoying behavior.

I discovered that all I had to do when I initialize the DataGridView is:
(just set the SelectionBackColor to be the current BackColor of the datagridview)

C#

YourDataGridView.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle.SelectionBackColor = YourDataGridView.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle.BackColor;

Fixed!