What is the Background color of a Menu/MenuItem in WPF?

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Apologies upfront for such a simplistic question. However, my google-fu skills just aren't working today and every result I'm getting is explaining how to "change the default background", which is not what I need.

What color is the default of the WPF MenuItem? Though I am interested in knowing the default color name, a better solution would be to know how to reference a Windows System brush value so that if the user changes their Windows theme settings, it would update this color, along with my menus.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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Do you want to get the colors or set them? Getting is easy:

SystemColors.MenuBrush
SystemColors.MenuColor

SystemColors.MenuBarBrush
SystemColors.MenuBarColor

SystemColors.MenuTextBrush
SystemColors.MenuTextColor

And if you want to be alerted when the theme changes, see the answers to this question.

To get the default MenuItem style, this will work:

var style = FindResource(typeof(MenuItem)) as Style;

Then I'm afraid you'll have to rifle through it in the watch window to see what it's setting to what.

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answered Apr 07 '17 at 20:10

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Odd, I found documentation referencing these colors but the output is different. I'm building a control that has a menu on top, and some additional features below. I've tried all of these colors, and they are all off. – RLH Apr 07 '17 at 20:14
@RLH The default Windows 7 style seems to do something different. The template uses `Fill="{TemplateBinding Background}"` on the background `Rectangle`, but I don't know what's in the style. I found an "Edit in Blend" menu item somewhere in VS half an hour ago but I can't find it now. – 15ee8f99-57ff-4f92-890c-b56153 Apr 07 '17 at 20:17
View | "Design in Blend" – 15ee8f99-57ff-4f92-890c-b56153 Apr 07 '17 at 20:24
@RLH Well, you can get the default menu item style at runtime; see update. From there it doesn't seem like a lot of fun. – 15ee8f99-57ff-4f92-890c-b56153 Apr 07 '17 at 20:30
Thanks. I think this is probably close enough for my needs. – RLH Apr 07 '17 at 20:31

What is the Background color of a Menu/MenuItem in WPF?

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