Selecting a Textbox Item in a Listbox does not change the selected item of the listbox

Question

I Have a wpf Listbox that display\'s a list of textboxes. When I click on the Textbox the Listbox selection does not change. I have to click next to the TextBox to select th

Answer 1

I use a class handler to set this behavior. Doing it this way will fix all of the list views in the application. I don't know why this is not the default behavior.

In your App.xaml.cs, add the following to OnStartup:

protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
    {
        EventManager.RegisterClassHandler(typeof (ListViewItem), 
                                          ListViewItem.PreviewGotKeyboardFocusEvent,
                                          new RoutedEventHandler((x,_) => (x as ListViewItem).IsSelected = true));
    }