[Solved] Border on legend markers

[Daniel]

Hi. I'm formatting a chart from the code behind. I've added some extra legend markers to my chart. The ones I've created have a nice grey border around the rectanglular boxes but the ones that are auto generated have no border. I can't seem to set the border no matter what I do. I've tried setting with the following:

RadChart1.Legend.Marker.Appearance.Border.PenStyle = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.DashStyle.Solid;
RadChart1.Legend.Marker.Appearance.Border.Width = 1;
RadChart1.Legend.Marker.Appearance.Border.Color = Color.Silver;

I haven't set any border properties for the ones I've created. I'm creating these as follows. I've also attached a screen. Thanks.

LabelItem item1 = new LabelItem();
item1.Marker.Appearance.FillStyle.MainColor = HexToColor("#2FBA2F");
item1.Marker.Appearance.FillStyle.FillType = FillType.Solid;
item1.Marker.Appearance.Figure = "Rectangle";
item1.TextBlock.Text = "Good";

[Evgenia]

Hello Daniel,

You can subscribe to BeforeLayout event of the chart to be able to change anything relating Legend Item Markers. Then you can easily set Border for your Markers by looping through them like this:

protected void RadChart1_BeforeLayout(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
       for (int i = 0; i < RadChart1.Legend.Items.Count; i++)
       {
           RadChart1.Legend.Items[i].Marker.Appearance.Border.Color = Color.Silver;
           RadChart1.Legend.Items[i].Marker.Appearance.Border.Width = 1;
       }
   }

If Silver borders do not seem to be visible at first look, try setting their width to 3 for example and you will see that they do appear with this approach.

Greetings,
Evgenia
the Telerik team

[Daniel]

Excellent! That did the trick. Thanks Evgenia.

Daniel