WPF ControlTemplate breaks style

Question

The stuff that does work

I need to style controls of a certain type that are children of a StackPanel. I\'m using:

Answer 1

WPF considers ControlTemplates to be a boundry, and will not apply implicit styles (styles without an x:Key) inside of templates.

But there is one exception to this rule: anything that inherits from Control will apply implicit styles.

So you could use a Label instead of a TextBlock, and it would apply the implicit style defined further up your XAML hierarchy, however since TextBlock inherits from FrameworkElement instead of Control, it won't apply the implicit style automatically and you have to add it manually.

My most common way to get around this is to add an implicit style in the ControlTemplate.Resources that is BasedOn the existing implicit TextBlock style