Click through ListBox to underlying Control - wpf

Hi I want to click through my listBox (click on empty space) and want the click on the underlying border control. I'm really sure that I have done this in the past using {x:Null} as the Background for a control. But this time it doesn't work.
Any hint why?
<Grid>
<Border x:Name="BrushBorder" Background="{Binding ActualBrush}" Margin="7,0" Height="10"
VerticalAlignment="Top" Cursor="Pen">
<dxmvvm:Interaction.Behaviors>
<dxmvvm:EventToCommand EventName="MouseDown" Command="{Binding NewGradientStopCommand}" PassEventArgsToCommand="True" />
</dxmvvm:Interaction.Behaviors>
</Border>
<ListBox x:Name="GradientStopListBox" ItemsSource="{Binding GradientStops}" SelectedItem="{Binding ActualGradientStop}"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalContentAlignment="Stretch"
Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}">

I found the answer. The ListBox includes a ScrollViewer and this is causing the mouse click the stay in the ListBox regradless of the BackgroundBrush.
See this question for further information:
Transparent WPF ListBox with selectable items

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The actual problem is not clear from the question.
You are not getting to see scrollviewer and the content inside is clipped? PLease confirm if that is the case.
If the problem is you are getting to see entire content taking up all the available space, and you would like to control that using scroll viewer, then you would need to set 'MaxHeight' property on Scroll Viewer. This would limit the height of your DataTemplate and would make verticall scroll bar visible if the inner content goes beyond the MaxHeight.
Hope that helps.

Silverlight Scrollviewer Mousewheel scrolls only when scrolled on datagrid. Page doesn't scroll when scrolled outside the datagrid

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Basically we need to set the background color to the scrollviewer. It worked after that.
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Answer is as mentione above. Applied background color to scrollviewer made is scrollable.
Background="Transparent" also works, if you can't use any color because of your design requirements.
I was using the Content Control to hold the inner view wrapped up with scroll viewer, the scroll viewer was only working on mouse wheel when the pointer is on any field and not on the empty area.
After seeing the above posts, I set the background color and it started working fine, though the solution looks unrelated [don't know how exactly related to the problem].

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I guess I could do it by modifying a somewhat similar behavior, but isn't there an easier way? This looks like a pretty basic behavior to me...
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The question is, is it possible to get the ComboBoxItem being stretched even when it's selected using SelectedIndex? Same bug, or feature, happens if SelectedIndex is untouched (-1) and one selects the item using keyboard.
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E.g.
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I see yes - i'm sure there is a way round this. It really depends what the end result is that you want. Do each of your data items have a difference background colour to identify them or is it simply a background colour to your whole combobox which you are trying to achieve.
If it is the latter, try this - and perhaps also remove the highlighted selection colour too, else perhaps the code behind route is correct, in terms of preselecting your first item, as that may be an option.
Example of All over Background colour:
<ComboBox Background="Red" x:Name="combox2" Height="30" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch" SelectedIndex="0">
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I have a ListBox displaying some items, and in certain modes I "stamp" a kind of watermark across the top of it. I've done this with a Border containing a TextBlock with an Opacity of 0.5. All this works nicely.
However, I still want the user to be able to click on the items in the ListBox but if I click on the "stamp" it obviously eats the click events and they're not seen by the ListBox.
What do I have to do to prevent this? (i.e. allow the ListBox to see the Click event)
Thanks,
Craig
You can do this with the IsHitTestVisible property:
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xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
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<ListBoxItem>b</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>c</ListBoxItem>
</ListBox>
<Border Opacity="0.2" Background="Cyan" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="5" IsHitTestVisible="False" >
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