WPF MouseDown event not firing everywhere in a control

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I am currently fighting against another WPF struggle, namely mouse events. I basically have a very simple control (a `Border` containing a `Grid` which itself has a few `TextBlocks`). I am trying to achieve a simple behavior: Double click should turn the control into edit mode (which in fact hides the `TextBlocks` with `TextBoxes` bound to the same data. Nothing fancy, right? Well still, I'm struggling. The `MouseDoubleClick` linked to my `UserControl` just fires when I click in a control (like, clicking ON a `TextBlock`). If I click on an empty space between `TextBlocks`, nothing is fired. Not even `MouseDown`. How could I make it work so as to catch every mouse click? I assumed that linking a `MouseDown` event to a `Border` should catch every click on the border but... it ended up not catching clicks on empty parts of the border. Here is some draft code I made for you to run it: XAML: ``` <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"> <Border Height="400" Width="400" HorizontalAlignment="Cente…

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``` ``` or ``` ``` should do the trick... This makes the grid transparent, however visible for mouse-clicks. Look here form more Information. There are some other circumstances, where you have to use the `PreviewXXX`- event, this is when a child element "swallows" the event away, but in your case, the above should be what you're looking for.

WPF MouseDown event not firing everywhere in a control

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