How to remove the black space around the button in WP7?

Question

As I see, WP7 buttons are surrounded by a black space of some pixels. How I can remove it?

I've read this post, but I didn't managed to remove it! Could you please give a working example?

I've tried to wrap button with <Border... /> element, but it didn't work.

this is my XAML

<ItemsControl Name="icCells" Grid.Row="1">
            <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <Button Background="Red" BorderThickness="0"  Width="40" Height="40" BorderBrush="Green" Padding="0" Margin="0" />

                </DataTemplate>                   
            </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
            <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
                <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                    <toolkit:WrapPanel/>
                </ItemsPanelTemplate>
            </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        </ItemsControl>

Thanks

Possibly the same question as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4448293/windows-phone-7-button-borders — mostruash, Jan 23 '12 at 02:14

MyKuLLSKI · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-23T15:59:36.233

Try the following:

Style

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>
    <Style x:Key="CustomButtonStyle" TargetType="Button">
        <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>
        <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"/>
        <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"/>
        <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="{StaticResource PhoneBorderThickness}"/>
        <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiBold}"/>
        <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeMediumLarge}"/>
        <Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/>
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
                    <Grid Background="Transparent">
                        <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                            <VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
                                <VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
                                <VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"/>
                                <VisualState x:Name="Pressed">
                                    <Storyboard>
                                        <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Foreground" Storyboard.TargetName="ContentContainer">
                                            <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneBackgroundBrush}"/>
                                        </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                                        <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Background" Storyboard.TargetName="ButtonBackground">
                                            <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"/>
                                        </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                                        <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="BorderBrush" Storyboard.TargetName="ButtonBackground">
                                            <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"/>
                                        </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                                    </Storyboard>
                                </VisualState>
                                <VisualState x:Name="Disabled">
                                    <Storyboard>
                                        <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Foreground" Storyboard.TargetName="ContentContainer">
                                            <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneDisabledBrush}"/>
                                        </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                                        <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="BorderBrush" Storyboard.TargetName="ButtonBackground">
                                            <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneDisabledBrush}"/>
                                        </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                                        <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Background" Storyboard.TargetName="ButtonBackground">
                                            <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="Transparent"/>
                                        </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                                    </Storyboard>
                                </VisualState>
                            </VisualStateGroup>
                        </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                        <Border x:Name="ButtonBackground" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" CornerRadius="0" Margin="0">
                            <ContentControl x:Name="ContentContainer" ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}" Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" Foreground="{TemplateBinding Foreground}" HorizontalContentAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}" VerticalContentAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"/>
                        </Border>
                    </Grid>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>
</phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>

XAML

<Button Style="{StaticResource CustomButtonStyle}"/>

If you want to change the Margin (I made it 0) search for the following in the Style:

Margin="0"

If you want to change the Padding (I made it 0) search for the following in the Style:

"Padding" Value="0"

I do recommend change it a little smaller...I personally think its a little large to much padding

alfah · Answer 2 · 2015-07-01T09:51:23.797

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You could do that easily in Blend.

Open the project in blend. Right click button and from the menu select Edit Template-> Edit a copy -> Name the style.

On the right side, in the object and timeline window, You can see a grid inside which you have a button background and a contentcontainer. Resize the container to the size of the button, now you wud see no white space. Now this same style can be applied to other buttons too.

edited Jul 01 '15 at 09:51

answered Jan 23 '12 at 09:34

alfah

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AweSome Answer, Its really so easy via Blend, Good job Mr. Alfah. Keep it up...! I can only up ur vote once, otherwise I would up it to 100. Great...! – Zia Ur Rahman Dec 05 '13 at 11:01

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:08

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You can find some theory here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745683.aspx

answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:08

Maxim Kamalov

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How to remove the black space around the button in WP7?

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