List allows you to apply styling to change the look and appearance of your application. It comes with many built-in options which can be used to change the background color, border, and much more.

List provides various properties which can be used to style the appearance of the control. It lets you set the foreground and background color of the control by using ForeColor and BackColor properties of the Style class, respectively.

Use the following code to set the background and foreground color of the List control.

c1List1.Style.BackColor = Color.Lavender;
c1List1.Style.ForeColor = Color.Purple;
c1List1.Style.Borders.Color = Color.DarkMagenta;

Set Alternate Row

List allows you to style the control by creating alternate rows. To achieve this, you can set the AlternatingRows property of the C1List class to true.

The following code demonstrates how to enable alternating rows in the List control.

c1List1.AlternatingRows = true;

Besides this, you can also set the alternating rows using the C1List Tasks smart tag panel. For more information, see C1List Tasks smart tag panel.

Set Image as Background

To set the background image on a list, you can use BackgroundImage property of the Style class by specifying the path of the image file.

The following code demonstrates how to set image as background in the List control.

//set background image
c1List1.Style.BackgroundImage = Image.FromFile("../.../images.jpg");

Furthermore, you can also set the foreground image using ForegroundImage property of the Style class. For more information, see Display Images.