.NET MAUI Chat Buttons Styling

Updated on Nov 13, 2025

This section describes how to style the send, more and speech to text buttons inside the RadChat control.

Style the Send Button

To customize the icon of the send button, use the SendMessageButtonImage (ImageSource) property.

The example below shows how to customize the Send button in your Chat control.

XAML

<FontImageSource x:Key="SendIconSource"
                 FontFamily="Your font family name"
                 Glyph="icon code"
                 Color="Black"
                 Size="16" />

XAML

 <telerik:RadChat x:Name="chat"
                  SendMessageButtonImage="{StaticResource SendIconSource}"/>

Style the More Button

The More button provides additional options for the user, such as attaching files or accessing other functionalities.

You can configure and style the More button using the following properties:

• IsMoreButtonVisible (bool) property controls the visibility of the more button. The default value is false.

• AutoGenerateMoreButtonActions (bool)—Defines whether to automatically generate default actions for the 'More' button. The default value is true.

• Define the actions that will appear when the More button is tapped by adding instances of ChatMoreButtonAction to the MoreButtonActions (IList<ChatMoreButtonAction>) collection.

• Style the More button using the MoreButtonStyle (Style with target type Telerik.Maui.Controls.Chat.ChatMoreButtonToolbarItemView) property.

Style the SpeechToTextButton

To configure the SpeechToTextButton, use the following properties:

• IsSpeechToTextButtonVisible (bool) property controls the visibility of the SpeechToTextButton. By default, the button is visible on Android, iOS and MacCatalyst and not visible on Windows. Review the [Speech to Text on Windows](%slug speechtotextbutton-winui-support%) article for more information on how to set up this feature on Windows.

• SpeechToTextButtonStyle (Style with target type Telerik.Maui.Controls.RadSpeechToTextButton) property is used to style the SpeechToTextButton.

See Also

• Commands
• Chat Items
• MVVM Support