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• Robert Intermediate

  Posted on Jan 24, 2012 (permalink)

  I'm in the process of switching over all references to the AJAX Control Toolkit to using your controls.  On one of my pages I use their TabContainer.  In my work I discovered that the RadTab control does not have an "ID" property.  Why was this excluded?
  
  In my existing code I have one event handler method to do assorted things when the user switches tabs.  It needs to differentiate between each tab.  Oh sure, what I'll just do is look for the Text property of the tab but if that text ever changes then the code will break unless I go through and search & replace all references to the tab's text value.
  
  Which brings us full circle: Why does each RadTab not have an ID property?

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• Kate Kate

  Posted on Jan 27, 2012 (permalink)

  Hello Robert,
  
  Instead of the Text property you can use the Value property of the tabs and assign a unique value to each one of them. Thus you can use the FindTabByValue property to access them later.
  
  All the best,
  Kate
  the Telerik team

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