Question

I have a TextBox control and I would like to be able to set a background image and a background color.

Currently I can set one, or the other but not both. When I try to set both simultaneously I receive a “The property ‘Background’ is set more than once” error.

Here is the code I used:

<TextBox Name="tbImageTextBox">
      <TextBox.Background>
           <ImageBrush ImageSource="/Resources/Images/image.png" 
                  AlignmentX="Right" Stretch="None"/>
           <SolidColorBrush>#FF8D8A8A</SolidColorBrush>
      </TextBox.Background>
</TextBox>

I have also attempted to set the background color in the style for the TextBox and the image in the <TextBox.Background>, but the color is ignored.

Answer 1

I ended up putting the TextBox into a grid with the Background color set and applying the background image to the TextBox itself as using VisualBrush and DrawingBrush stretched my image or only applied the background color to the image – not the rest of the TextBox.