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Working With Items at the Client

RadToolBar provides a client-side API for adding, deleting and updating items.

Don't forget to wrap the changes in the toolBar.trackChanges() ; and toolBar.commitChanges(); if you want to preserve these changes at the server-side.

Adding Items

You can add items to the RadTooBarItemCollection of the toolbar or you can add buttons to the Buttons collections of the drop-down and the split button.

var toolBar = $find("<%=RadToolBar1.ClientID %>");
toolBar.trackChanges();

//add button
var button = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadToolBarButton();
button.set_text("Button1");
toolBar.get_items().add(button);

//add dropdown
var dropDown = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadToolBarDropDown();
dropDown.set_text("Drop Down 1");
var childButton = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadToolBarButton();
childButton.set_text("Child Button1");
dropDown.get_buttons().add(childButton);
toolBar.get_items().add(dropDown);

//add splitButton
var splitButton = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadToolBarSplitButton();
splitButton.set_text("Split Button 1");
var childButton = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadToolBarButton();
childButton.set_text("Child Button1");
splitButton.get_buttons().add(childButton);toolBar.get_items().add(splitButton);
toolBar.commitChganges();   

Removing Items

Use the remove method of the RadComboBoxItemCollection object to remove items or the remove method of the Buttons collections of the split button or the drop-down objects to remove buttons.

toolBar.trackChanges();

//remove item from the RadToolBarItemCollection
var itemToRemove = toolBar._findItemByText("Button1");
toolBar.get_items().remove(itemToRemove);

//remove the first child button from the splitbutton's Buttons collection
var splitButton = toolBar.findItemByText("Split Button 1");
splitButton.get_buttons().remove(splitButton.get_buttons().getButton(0));

//remove the first child button from the dropdown's Buttons collection
var dropDown = toolBar.findItemByText("Drop Down 1");
dropDown.get_buttons().remove(dropDown.get_buttons().getButton(0));
toolBar.commitChganges();   

Enabling/Disabling Items

Use the disable method to disable items in the RadToolBarItemCollection or buttons in the Buttons collections of the split button and drop-down objects:

var itemToDisable = toolBar.findItemByText("Button1"); 
itemToDisable.disable();
splitButton.get_buttons().getButton(0).disable(); 
dropDown.get_buttons().getButton(0).disable();  

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