TabStrip is a powerful navigation control for building tabbed interfaces in ASP.NET applications.

Control have been built to generate minimal HTML code, work on the client-side without hassles, be fast and fully support AJAX for on-demand page loading via callbacks.

The TabStrip offers you myriads of options for appearance customization. You can control the look and feel of tabs using multiple mechanisms - from applying an auto-format to the entire control, to customization of individual tabs via its properties or using CSS. Beyond appearance options, you have an extremely flexible means with which to control end-user interaction. Numerous server-side settings, client-side API and events allow you to take full control over how your tab control responds to user actions - which user action activates a tab, should there be a postback, callback or client processing. Note that the most frequently used scenarios are already built-in - like tab form validation or wizard-like interface.

 

Key Features

• Programmatic access to the TabStrip object model which allows to dynamic creation of tabstrips, populate the tabs, set properties.
• Compatible with Microsoft's AJAX Framework.
• Customizable appearance through built-in or user-defined skins.
• Integrated server-side and client-side object models.
• Support for ASP.NET postbacks, server-side events, form validation and validation groups.
• Full design support. Using intuitive dialogs, you can easily define tabstrip structure and set the properties.
• Wide variety of configurations by defining different property values combinations of TabStrip. These include: vertical tabstrips, multi-row tabstrips, Scrollable tabstrips.
• Rich client side API.
• Cross-browser. The control fully supports Internet Explorer 5.5 and later, Opera 9 and later, Mozilla 1.7 and later,  Firefox v2.0 and later.
• XHTML 1.1 compliance 
• The control is "Level A" compliant (in accordance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0). It also introduces certain features that satisfy the requirements of "Section 508" for software accessibility. As a result, the component can be used in US Federal Institutions and other organizations, which require software to be accessible to people with disabilities.

 

TabStrip view samples:

Each tab inside TabStrip may contains text, images, HTML-controls or ASP.NET web controls. Tabs provide a client area to which visual elements can be added. A collection of the page's child elements can be accessed via the Controls property or by using child control ID.

All the tab pages are stored in the page control's TabStrip.Pages collection. Individual pages can be accessed using index notation.

The tab page's visibility and position are specified by its TabStripPage.Visible property. The TabStripPage.Enabled property specifies whether the page can be activated. A disabled page cannot be activated by an end user or via code, its header is displayed using individual style.

Feature Highlights

TabStrip control is complied against the .NET 2.0 framework and offers new specific features for Microsoft's next-generation IDE, Visual Studio .NET 2005. The new release will enable developers to enjoy significant productivity gains, while delivering feature-rich, standards-compliant, AJAX-enabled, and cross-browser compatible web applications.

• More powerful VS.NET design-time support - the design-time functionality of TabStrip has been enhanced to support the new version of Visual Studio .NET 2005, along with its new productivity features like Smart Tags, click handling and direct control acessing.
• Smart Tags - TabStrip takes advantage of Smart Tags, the VisualStudio 2005 feature that provides quick access to commonly used control properties.
• Validation Groups.

TabStrip: Appearance | Design time | Multi row | Validation groups | Client API

Controls: TabControl

 

 

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