Maui Chat Control update style of chat items

Hello Euan,

This is an update to my previous answer.

There is another way to set the TextColor property without creating custom ItemTemplateSelector. It can be achieved by using an implicit style targeting TextMessageView or IncomingTextMessageView, OutgoingTextMessageView respectively.

            <Style x:Key="LabelStyle" TargetType="Label">
                <Setter Property="TextColor" Value="Red" />
            </Style>
            <Style TargetType="telerik:TextMessageView" ApplyToDerivedTypes="True">
                <Setter Property="LabelStyle" Value="{StaticResource LabelStyle}" />
            </Style>

You can also refer to these examples - https://github.com/telerik/maui-samples/blob/main/Samples/SdkBrowser/Examples/ChatControl/FeaturesCategory/CustomizationExample/Customization.xaml.

I hope you find this information useful.

Regards,
Elena
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Hello Euan,

Thank you for providing the screenshot.

To style the chat items, please refer to the following page of the documentation - https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/maui/controls/chat/item-template-selector. Text color in particular can be changed by adding a style with target type Label and setting its TextColor property. In the example the style is named DefaultLabelStyle. The example code can be found here: https://github.com/telerik/maui-samples/tree/main/Samples/SdkBrowser/Examples/ChatControl/FeaturesCategory 

I hope you find this answer helpful. If you need further assistance, please reach out.

Regards,
Elena
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