How to change the highlighted text's Foreground color for a WPF TextBox?

Question

I am working on an application having both WinForms and WPF controls; In case of WinForms TextBox selected text Background color comes Blue and White respectively whereas in WPF TextBox it is LightBlue and Black.

As answered in these questions I can use SelectionBrush property(WPF 4) to change the selected text's background, but How can I change the foreground color of selected text?

How can you change the highlighted text color for a WPF TextBox?

How can I change the highlighted text color for a TextBox?

Answer 1

You cannot, the control does not allow for it.

Answer 2

Starting with .net 4.8 it is possible in TextBox using TextBoxBase.SelectionTextBrush https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.controls.primitives.textboxbase.selectiontextbrush?view=net-5.0