Disable blue border for selected Listview item

Question

I have a ListView with Horizontal WrapPanel as its ItemsPanelTemplate. I want to get rid of the blue background for selected item. It is visible only on the left of the selected item.

There are many similar question on SO and I tried a lot of the solutions and none of them worked.

This is what I have already tried:

<ListView.Resources>
            <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                <Style.Resources>
                    <!-- Foreground for Selected ListViewItem -->
                    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightTextBrushKey}" 
                             Color="Black"/>
                    <!-- Background for Selected ListViewItem -->
                    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}"
                             Color="Transparent"/>
                    <!--SelectedItem without focus-->
                    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}" Color="Transparent"/>
                </Style.Resources>
            </Style>
        </ListView.Resources>



<ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
            <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                <EventSetter Event="Control.MouseDoubleClick" Handler="HandleSelectedItemDoubleClick"/>
                <Style.Triggers>
                    <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="true">
                        <Setter Property="RenderTransform">
                            <Setter.Value>
                                <ScaleTransform ScaleX="2" ScaleY="2" CenterX="12" CenterY="12" />
                            </Setter.Value>
                        </Setter>
                        <Setter Property="Panel.ZIndex" Value="150"/>
                        <Setter Property="FocusVisualStyle" Value="{x:Null}"/>
                        <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{x:Null}" />
                        <Setter Property="Background" Value="{x:Null}" />
                    </Trigger>
                </Style.Triggers>
            </Style>
        </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
        <ListView.ItemsPanel>
            <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                <WrapPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Width="210" Margin="15" />
            </ItemsPanelTemplate>
        </ListView.ItemsPanel>

Answer 1

You need to overwrite the SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey for the ListView to be Transparent (or whatever color you want)

I typically put this in the ListView.Resources so it only applies to the specific ListView, and not all ListViews in my application

<ListView.Resources>
    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}" 
                     Color="Transparent"/>
</ListView.Resources>

Its very close to what you have in your code already, but you need to set it for the ListView.Resources, not ListViewItem.Resources

Answer 2

To remove all default styling (hovering, selecting, etc.) just define a custom Template for the ItemContainer (not the Item itself):

<ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                    <ContentPresenter />
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>
</ListView.ItemContainerStyle>

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