Configuring Caret Color (xamRichTextEditor)

Topic Overview

This topic explains how to change the xamRichTextEditor ™ control’s caret color.

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic	Purpose
Features Overview	This topic provides an overview of the features supported by the xamRichTextEditor control.
Content Structure	This topic explains the document’s content logical structure you can use to edit the contents in the xamRichTextEditor programmatically.
Adding xamRichTextEditor to Your Page	This topic provides detailed instructions to help you get up and running as quickly as possible with the xamRichTextEditor .

This topic contains the following sections:

The following table briefly explains the configurable aspects of the xamRichTextEditor control and maps them to their specific properties.

Configurable aspect	Details	Properties
Change xamRichTextEditor’s Caret Color	Changes the color used to draw the editor’s caret.	CaretColor

Use the xamRichTextEditor control’s CaretColor property to specify the color to display the caret.

The following table maps the desired configuration to its specific property settings.

In order to:	Use this property:	And set it to:
Change the color used for the editor’s caret	`CaretColor`	A value of type ColorInfo

The code snippet below demonstrates how to set the xamRichTextEditor’s caret in green color:

In XAML:

<ig:XamRichTextEditor x:Name="xamRichTextEditor1" CaretColor="Green">
</ig:XamRichTextEditor>

In C#:

this.xamRichTextEditor1.CaretColor = new ColorInfo(Colors.Green);

In Visual Basic:

Me.xamRichTextEditor1.CaretColor = New ColorInfo(Colors.Green)