Background Property (UIElement)

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Gets or sets the Brush that describes the background of the object.

Brush

The brush that is used to fill the background of the object. If either the object's Height or Width property values are equal to 0, the Background property value is ignored.

This property is read/write. The default value is null.

The following XAML example shows how to define a LinearGradientBrush object that is used as the Background property value for the Canvas object:

<Canvas
  xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007"
  xmlns:x="https://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
  Width="200" Height="80"
  >
  <!-- Define a LinearGradientBrush for the Canvas Background property. -->
  <Canvas.Background>
    <LinearGradientBrush>
      <GradientStop Color="Yellow" Offset="0.0" />
      <GradientStop Color="Orange" Offset="0.5" />
      <GradientStop Color="Red" Offset="1.0" />
    </LinearGradientBrush>
  </Canvas.Background>
</Canvas>

The XAML content of the previous example is displayed using a LinearGradientBrush object.

Canvas object rendered with a LinearGradientBrush

Note The Background property of the Silverlight plugin determines the background color of the client area of your Silverlight content.

Canvas

Brush, Canvas, Background (Silverlight Plugin)