DataGridView selected cell style

Question

How can I change the "selection style" on a DataGridView (winforms)?

Answer 1

Use the SelectedCells property of the GridView and the Style property of the DataGridViewCell.

Answer 2

Handle the SelectionChanged event on your DataGridView and add code that looks something like this:

    private void dataGridView1_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        foreach (DataGridViewRow row in this.dataGridView1.Rows)
        {
            foreach (DataGridViewCell c in row.Cells)
            {
                c.Style = this.dataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle;
            }
        }


        DataGridViewCellStyle style = new DataGridViewCellStyle();
        style.BackColor = Color.Red;
        style.Font = new Font("Courier New", 14.4f, FontStyle.Bold);
        foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in this.dataGridView1.SelectedCells)
        {
            cell.Style = style;
        } 
    }

Answer 3

You can easily change the forecolor and backcolor of selcted cells by assigning values to the SelectedBackColor and SelectedForeColor of the Grid's DefaultCellStyle.

If you need to do any further styling you you need to handle the SelectionChanged event

Edit: (Other code sample had errors, adjusting for multiple selected cells [as in fullrowselect])

using System.Drawing.Font;

private void dataGridView_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
     {

      foreach(DataGridViewCell cell in ((DataGridView)sender).SelectedCells)
  {
   cell.Style = new DataGridViewCellStyle()
   {
    BackColor = Color.White,
    Font = new Font("Tahoma", 8F),
    ForeColor = SystemColors.WindowText,
    SelectionBackColor = Color.Red,
    SelectionForeColor = SystemColors.HighlightText
   };
  }
     }