Accessing Controls inside Templates

[Lukus]

I am trying to do some client-side validation over 4 different tabs.  I can get the tabstrip and the tab elements just fine but when I try to find a specific control inside a given tab it is unable to find it.  Here is what I have.

var tabstrip = $find("<%=RadTabStrip1.ClientID %>");
var tab      = tabstrip.findTabByText("Statistics");
var amount   = tab.findControl("txt_amount");

"txt_amount" is the ID of a TextBox in a tab named "statistics."  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

[Shinu]

Hello Lukos,
I could not find any direct method to access  normal asp controls from client side. One suggestion is to use RadTextBox and access it using findControl().

<telerik:RadTabStrip ID="RadTabStrip1" runat="server" SelectedIndex="0">

<Tabs>

 <telerik:RadTab runat="server" Text="Products" Selected="True" SelectedIndex="0">

     <TabTemplate>

      <telerik:RadTextBox ID="radTextBox1" runat="server"></telerik:RadTextBox>

      </TabTemplate>

</telerik:RadTab>

<telerik:RadTab runat="server" Text="Tours">

</telerik:RadTab>
    </Tabs>

</telerik:RadTabStrip>

Javascript:

function findTextBox()
{
    var tabStrip = $find("<%= RadTabStrip1.ClientID %>");
    var tab = tabStrip.findTabByText("Products");
    var toolBar = tab.findControl("radTextBox1");
}

Thanks,
Shinu.