How to change only the button of an Expander button? WPF

Question

I have an Expander placed in a window with a blue background, and I would like to make the button for the expander another color than the default (the blue that it receives from the window). When I change the background property of the expander, it changes the entire expander, title, and everything to a new color. However, I would like to change only the button. Can someone point me to the correct property I'm looking for? Thanks you

Answer 1

You need to not only rewind Expander ... you need to rewind ToggleButton in the Expander template ... so that you can snap the template brush set to Expander all the way down through the Expander visual effects and into the ToggleButton visual effects (using two TemplateBindings).

One thing that is useful (at least for me) when you learn how to change the visual elements of WPF controls is to use SimpleStyles, since they are much easier to copy and modify ... than full, normal styles and templates.

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<Page
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Width="640"
    Height="480"
>
    <Page.Resources>
        <LinearGradientBrush x:Key="NormalBrush" EndPoint="0,1" StartPoint="0,0">
            <GradientStop Color="#EEE" Offset="0.0"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#CCC" Offset="1.0"/>
        </LinearGradientBrush>
        <LinearGradientBrush x:Key="NormalBorderBrush" EndPoint="0,1" StartPoint="0,0">
            <GradientStop Color="#CCC" Offset="0.0"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#444" Offset="1.0"/>
        </LinearGradientBrush>
        <SolidColorBrush x:Key="GlyphBrush" Color="#444"/>
        <LinearGradientBrush x:Key="MouseOverBrush" EndPoint="0,1" StartPoint="0,0">
            <GradientStop Color="#FFF" Offset="0.0"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#AAA" Offset="1.0"/>
        </LinearGradientBrush>
        <LinearGradientBrush x:Key="PressedBrush" EndPoint="0,1" StartPoint="0,0">
            <GradientStop Color="#BBB" Offset="0.0"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#EEE" Offset="0.1"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#EEE" Offset="0.9"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#FFF" Offset="1.0"/>
        </LinearGradientBrush>

        <ControlTemplate x:Key="newToggleButtonControlTemplate" TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
            <Grid Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">
                <Rectangle
                    x:Name="Rectangle"
                    Margin="0,0,0,0"
                    Fill="Transparent"
                    Stroke="{DynamicResource NormalBorderBrush}"
                />
                <Path
                    x:Name="Up_Arrow"
                    HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                    VerticalAlignment="Center"
                    Fill="{DynamicResource GlyphBrush}"
                    Data="M 0 0 L 4 4 L 8 0 Z"
                />
                <Path
                    x:Name="Down_Arrow"
                    Visibility="Collapsed"
                    HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                    VerticalAlignment="Center"
                    Fill="{DynamicResource GlyphBrush}"
                    Data="M 0 4 L 4 0 L 8 4 Z"
                />
            </Grid>
            <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="true">
                    <Setter Property="Fill" Value="{DynamicResource MouseOverBrush}" TargetName="Rectangle"/>
                </Trigger>
                <Trigger Property="IsPressed" Value="true">
                    <Setter Property="Fill" Value="{DynamicResource PressedBrush}" TargetName="Rectangle"/>
                </Trigger>
                <Trigger Property="IsChecked" Value="true">
                    <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Visible" TargetName="Down_Arrow"/>
                    <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Collapsed" TargetName="Up_Arrow"/>
                </Trigger>
            </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
        </ControlTemplate>
        <Style x:Key="newExpanderStyle" TargetType="{x:Type Expander}">
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Expander}">
                        <Grid>
                            <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                                <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
                                <RowDefinition Height="*" x:Name="ContentRow"/>
                            </Grid.RowDefinitions>
                            <Border
                                x:Name="Border"
                                Grid.Row="0"
                                BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
                                CornerRadius="2,2,0,0"
                            >
                                <Grid>
                                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="20"/>
                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                    <ToggleButton
                                        Template="{DynamicResource newToggleButtonControlTemplate}"
                                        Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
                                        IsChecked="{Binding Path=IsExpanded, Mode=TwoWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"
                                        OverridesDefaultStyle="True"
                                    />
                                    <ContentPresenter Grid.Column="1" Margin="4" RecognizesAccessKey="True" ContentSource="Header"/>
                                </Grid>
                            </Border>
                            <Border
                                x:Name="ExpandSite"
                                Grid.Row="1"
                                Visibility="Collapsed"
                                BorderThickness="1,0,1,1"
                                CornerRadius="0,0,2,2"
                            >
                                <ContentPresenter
                                    HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}"
                                    VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"
                                    Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}"
                                    Focusable="false"
                                />
                            </Border>
                        </Grid>
                        <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                            <Trigger Property="IsExpanded" Value="True">
                                <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Visible" TargetName="ExpandSite"/>
                            </Trigger>
                        </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
        </Style>
    </Page.Resources>

    <Page.Background>
        <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.997,0.996" StartPoint="0.002,0.058">
            <GradientStop Color="#FF63A6DE" Offset="0"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#FFC2DEF5" Offset="1"/>
        </LinearGradientBrush>
    </Page.Background>

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
        <Expander
            Style="{DynamicResource newExpanderStyle}"
            Header="Expander"
            HorizontalAlignment="Left"
            VerticalAlignment="Top"
            Background="{DynamicResource NormalBrush}"
        >
            <Grid>
                <Button Content="Hello World"/>
            </Grid>
        </Expander>
    </Grid>
</Page>