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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:46:42+00:00

Here is my XAML for a TabItem. I want to be able to set

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Here is my XAML for a TabItem. I want to be able to set the Color of a single gradient stop in a trigger. I know that I can re-define the gradient completely in the trigger’s setter, but I want to access a specific property on the background so I can animate it in the future.

I have tried every variation of everything in the trigger’s setter and googled for a long time – but I still can’t get it to compile. I have also tried class.property syntax, but still nothing. The current error this code raises is:

“Type ‘Background.GradientStops[0]’ was not found.”

I am pretty sure I know what is going on here – and perhaps what I want is impossible. But there has to be a way to animate a control’s gradient in a control template…

Can anyone help me?
thanks

<Style TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
                <TextBlock Padding="6 2 6 2" Name="TheHeader">
                    <TextBlock.Background>
                        <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0, 0" EndPoint="0, 1">
                            <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="#f4fafd" />
                            <GradientStop Offset="1" Color="#ceedfa" />
                        </LinearGradientBrush>
                    </TextBlock.Background>
                    <ContentPresenter ContentSource="Header" Margin="0" />
                </TextBlock>
                <ControlTemplate.Triggers >
                    <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                        <Setter TargetName="TheHeader" Property="Background.GradientStops[0].Color" Value="White" />
                    </Trigger>
                </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can animate it, like in the example here.

    You also could use a slight hack to set it, though I always prefer creating multiple brushes as resources and swapping them or re-creating a brush in the as you mentioned.

    <Style TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
                    <TextBlock Padding="6 2 6 2"
                               Name="TheHeader" Tag="#f4fafd">
                                    <TextBlock.Background>
                                            <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0, 0"
                                                                 EndPoint="0, 1">
                                                    <GradientStop Offset="0" 
                                                                  Color="{Binding ElementName=TheHeader, Path=Tag}"/>
                                                    <GradientStop Offset="1"
                                                                  Color="#ceedfa" />
                                            </LinearGradientBrush>
                                    </TextBlock.Background>
                                    <ContentPresenter ContentSource="Header"
                                                      Margin="0" />
                    </TextBlock>
                    <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                        <Trigger Property="IsSelected"
                                 Value="True">
                            <Setter TargetName="TheHeader"
                                    Property="Tag"
                                    Value="Red" />
                        </Trigger>
                    </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>
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