The RadToolBarButton has a few important properties, which are listed below:

• Text is the string that the user sees for the button.
• ToolTip is the text of the tooltip that appears when the user hovers the mouse over the button.

  Note
  Setting the tooltip can enable an accessibility feature: Special accessibility readers like JAWS can pronounce the tooltip of the highlighted item.

• Value is the value associated with the button.
• CommandName and CommandArgument let you associate a command with the button.
• CheckOnClick indicates whether the button has two states: "checked" and "unchecked". When CheckOnClick is True, the user can change the state to "checked" by clicking on the button.
• Checked indicates whether the button is checked. A button can be checked only if the CheckOnClick property is set to True.
• Group lets you group toolbar buttons together so that they act like radio buttons.
• AllowSelfUnCheck lets the user turn off the checked state of a button by clicking. This property should not be set to True if the button is used in a group.
• Enabled determines whether the user can click the button to perform some task.
• IsSeparator turns the button into a separator. Separators do not perform a task, but simply act to make visual distinctions in the layout of buttons in the toolbar or a drop-down list.
• CssClass is the name of a CSS style to be applied to the button. The style can be declared in the CSS file of the applied skin.

In addition to the built-in properties, you can add your own custom attributes to the toolbar buttons to expand their functionality.

The RadToolBarDropDown object exposes a Buttons collection. In other words, the RadToolBarDropDown can contain RadToolBarButtons. Below are listed some of the most important properties of the RadToolBarDropDown:

• Text is the string that the user sees for the drop-down.
• Enabled indicates whether the user can expand/collapse the drop-down.
• Visible indicates whether the drop-down is visible or not.
• CssClass is the name of the CSS style to be applied to the drop-down. The style can be declared in the CSS file of the applied skin.
• ToolTip is the text of the tooltip that appears when the user hovers the mouse over the drop-down.

In addition to the built-in properties, you can add your own custom attributes to drop-downs to expand their functionality.

The RadToolBarSplitButton object also exposes a Buttons collection.

• Text is the string that the user sees for the split button.
• EnableDefaultButton lets you specify a button in the split button's Buttons collection that acts as a default button. When the split button has a default button, it displays the Text and image of the default button rather than the values assigned to its own Text and image properties.
• DefaultButtonIndex identifies which button in the Buttons collection is the default button when the EnableDefaultButton property is True.
• Value is the value associated with the split button.
• CommandName and CommandArgument let you associate a command with the split button.
• Enabled indicates whether the user can click/expand/collapse the split button.
• Visible indicates whether the split button is visible or not.
• CssClass is the name of the CSS style to be applied to the split button. The style can be declared in the CSS file of the applied skin.
• ToolTip is the text of the tooltip that appears when the user hovers the mouse over the split button.

In addition to the built-in properties, you can add your own custom attributes to split buttons to expand their functionality.

There are a number of ways you can control the buttons that RadToolBar holds. You can:

• Specify the buttons in-line at design time.
• Load the items from an XML file.
• Bind the toolbar to a data source.
• Add, remove, and edit the items in the toolbar in server-side code.

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