Setting Active TabItem

[ktang]

Hi,

I have a question on how to programmatic select a tab to show on load or after an event.  For example, i have 3 tabitems in my tab, and i want to show the 2nd item on page load.  How can I do that?

Thank you

Kenneth

[Ivan]

Hello Kenneth,

Thank you for your interest in the RadTabControl.

There are some ways to initialize the initial selected tab item:

• If you create the RadTabControl inside the Xaml-code.
  Here you can use one of:
  • RadTabControl's SelectedIndex property as:
     
    

    <telerikNavigation:RadTabControl SelectedIndex="2"

     
  • RadTabItem's IsSelected property as:
     
    

    <telerikNavigation:RadTabItem IsSelected="True"

     
• If you create the RadTabControl in code behind.
  Here you can use:
  • RadTabControl's SelectedIndex property as:
     
    

    tabControl.SelectedIndex = 1;

     

We prepared and attached here an example where both techniques are demonstrated. Please give it a try and let us know if you have other questions.

Greetings,
Ivan
the Telerik team

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[ktang]

Thanks Ivan, i actually figured it out already, should have update this post but I totoally forgot already.  I guess when I post this message I haven't figured out that the SelectedIndex is not 0 base.  I keep changing the SelectedIndex to 1 and thinking it would go to the 2nd tab, but finally by guessing I got it working.

Thank you
Kenneth

[Julio]

Hi

I have a different issue,  I have RadTabControl with the following configuration in a silverlight project:

1. The RadTabControl is inside a dataform control.
2. It has 3 RadTabControlItems.  There is not tabs added dynamically.
3. There is no nothing controlling or manage SelectIndexChanged.

Issue:

When the user selects tab 2 for example, the system load tab 2 but after tab 2 is loaded, automatically it gets change to Tab 1.

Is there any way to avoid this issue?

[Stefan]

Hello Julio,

Unfortunately I was not able to reproduce the described behavior. I attached the sample project I used for testing the issue. Please feel free to modify it in order to show us how to reproduce the described behavior.

Regards,
Stefan
Telerik

[Julio]

Thanks I will review the sample.