--- title: Avalonia UI Theming - Buttons | Hand Coded From Scratch description: Hand-coding every Avalonia button style from scratch — no theme generators, no AI shortcuts. We take the button file from the Setup episode and transform it... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/avalonia-ui-theming---buttons-hand-coded-from-scratch-s8vkswp5x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Avalonia UI Theming - Buttons | Hand Coded From Scratch | daily.dev og:description: Hand-coding every Avalonia button style from scratch — no theme generators, no AI shortcuts. We take the button file from the Setup episode and transform it... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/avalonia-ui-theming---buttons-hand-coded-from-scratch-s8vkswp5x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/s8vKSwp5x.png og:image:alt: Avalonia UI Theming - Buttons | Hand Coded From Scratch og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Avalonia UI Theming - Buttons | Hand Coded From Scratch **[AngelSix](https://daily.dev/sources/angelsix)** · 30 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hand-coding every Avalonia button style from scratch — no theme generators, no AI shortcuts. We take the button file from the Setup episode and transform it into a full prototype sketch theme, covering all button states: Default, Hover, Pressed, Disabled, and Accent. By the end you'll understand exactly how Avalonia's control templates and theme resources work — and how to override them with confidence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • How to display all button states visually in the Avalonia designer • Editing ButtonBackground, ButtonForeground and BorderBrush per state • Creating preview classes (previewhover, previewpressed) for design-time visualisation • Styling Accent buttons with LinearGradientBrush • Adding dashed borders using ControlTemplate and Rectangle • Changing font family for a hand-sketched prototype feel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 – Introduction & project goal 0:43 – Initial button setup & identifying theme gaps 1:27 – Setting up button states in XAML (Default, Hover, Pressed, Disabled) 2:51 – Setting up Accent button states 4:33 – Integrating the Prototype theme namespace 6:44 – Modifying default button backgrounds 10:00 – Modifying Pressed, Disabled & Foreground colours 12:25 – Applying preview styles for Hover and Pressed states 15:00 – Modifying button borders 16:17 – Changing font family to a prototype style 16:48 – Styling Accent button backgrounds with gradients 23:00 – Adding dashed borders to Accent buttons via ControlTemplate 30:37 – Wrap-up ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ Part 1 – Initial Setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUKlQnjU0tc 🌐 AngelSix: https://www.angelsix.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 SERIES: Avalonia UI Theming – Hand Coded From Scratch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #avalonia #avaloniaui #xaml #csharp #dotnet #uiux #desktopapp #softwaretutorial #coding ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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