Question

Is it possible to turn off the selection of a WPF ListView, so when user clicks row, the row is not highlighted?

_{(source: konim5am at artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)}

I would like the row 1 to look just like row 0 when clicked.

Possibly related: can I style the look of the hover / selection? Eg. to replace the blue gradient hover look (line 3) with a custom solid color. I have found this and this, unfortunately not helping.

(Achieving the same without using ListView is acceptable too. I’d just like to be able to use logical scrolling and UI virtualization as ListView does)

The XAML for ListView is:

<ListView Height="280" Name="listView">
    <ListView.Resources>
        <!-- attempt to override selection color -->
        <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightColorKey}"
                         Color="Green" />
    </ListView.Resources>
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridView.Columns>
                <GridViewColumn Header="Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}" />
                <!-- more columns -->
            </GridView.Columns>
        </GridView>
     </ListView.View>
</ListView>

Answer 1

Per Martin Konicek’s comment, to fully disable the selection of the items in the simplest manner:

<ListView>
    <ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ListViewItem">
            <Setter Property="Focusable" Value="false"/>
        </Style>
    </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    ...
</ListView>

However if you still require the functionality of the ListView, like being able to select an item, then you can visually disable the styling of the selected item like so:

You can do this a number of ways, from changing the ListViewItem’s ControlTemplate to just setting a style (much easier). You can create a style for the ListViewItems using the ItemContainerStyle and ‘turn off’ the background and border brush when it is selected.

<ListView>
    <ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
            <Style.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsSelected"
                         Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="Background"
                            Value="{x:Null}" />
                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush"
                            Value="{x:Null}" />
                </Trigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
        </Style>
    </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    ...
</ListView>

Also, unless you have some other way of notifying the user when the item is selected (or just for testing) you can add a column to represent the value:

<GridViewColumn Header="IsSelected"
                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type ListViewItem}}, Path=IsSelected}" />