Question

I have developed WPF application which contains the menuitem.
I set background color to these menuitem using the following code-

<MenuItem Header="_Main"  >

            <MenuItem Header=" _Daily Expences">
                <MenuItem.Background >
                    <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0,0.5" EndPoint="1,0.5">
                        <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
                            <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="DeepSkyBlue"  />
                            <GradientStop Offset="1" Color="DarkOliveGreen"   />
                        </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
                    </LinearGradientBrush>
                </MenuItem.Background>
            </MenuItem>
         <Separator ></Separator>
            <MenuItem Header=" _Business">
               <MenuItem.Background >
                    <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0,0.5" EndPoint="1,0.5">
                        <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
                            <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="DeepSkyBlue"  />
                            <GradientStop Offset="1" Color="DarkOliveGreen"   />
                        </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
                    </LinearGradientBrush>
                </MenuItem.Background>
            </MenuItem>
        </MenuItem>

When i run the application it shows the color which i set, but the background color for this menu list is still gray when i focus the cursor on the menuitem.
Please help me to solve this problem.

Answer 1

I think you should use MenuItem.ItemContainerStyle

take a look at the answer here (for me it should be the same problem):
changing background color of container when textbox is in focus