RadTabStrip for ASP.NET
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This topic outlines some important general features of both Telerik RadTabStrip and Telerik RadMultiPage.

Please note that Telerik RadTabStrip v3.0 is not backward compatible with previous versions.

Compatibility and Compliance Features for both Telerik RadTabStrip and RadMultiPage

  1. Wide cross-browser support
    Both Telerik RadTabStrip and Telerik RadMultiPage support all major browsers and platforms (both on PC and Mac, where applicable):
    • Internet Explorer 5.5+;
    • all Gecko-based browsers - Mozilla 1.0+, FireFox, Netscape 7+;
    • Opera 7.5x+.
  2. Support for ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
    Telerik RadTabStrip and Telerik RadMultiPage can run under both ASP.NET 1.1x and ASP.NET 2.0. The two controls are compiled against both Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 (thus offering new specific features for Microsoft's next-generation IDE, Visual Studio .NET 2005).
  3. Standards compliance
    In conformance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, both Telerik RadTabStrip and Telerik RadMultiPage are level AAA compliant. The default HTML output is fully XHTML 1.1 compliant.

Telerik RadTabStrip Features

  1. Logical separation of labels and content area
    Telerik RadTabStrip's content is separated from the tab labels. The tabs represent only the labels and not the content below them. The content is rendered independently of the tab, for example using a MultiPage, thus allowing greater flexibility.



  2. Integration with RadMultiPage
    Telerik RadMultiPage represents the content area of the tabstrip. This content is separated from the tabstrip labels and can be positioned anywhere on the page.

  3. Hierarchical tab structures
    You can easily build multilevel tabstrips using nested XML tag declarations or databind the control to hierarchical data sources.

      
  4. Natural keyboard support
    Since v3.0, Telerik RadTabStrip has been conforming to the web standards regarding the keyboard navigation possibilities it exposes to the developer.

    Keyboard support 
  5. Full design support
    Using intuitive dialogs, you can easily define tabstrip structure and set the properties.
  6. You can achieve a wide variety of tabstrip configurations by defining different property value combinations of Telerik RadTabStrip. These include:
  7. Flexible skinning mechanism
    The entire control look and feel is defined by skins. You can easily modify existing skins, or create your own.
  8. Tab separators
    They are used to visually group the tabs of a tabstrip into categories. With the property IsSeparator you can have a tab act as a separator.


 

RadMultiPage Features

  1. Easy customization of appearance
    The visual appearance of Telerik RadMultiPage can be easily customized using CSS classes. A CSS class can be set globally for all pageviews, or for each pageview individually.
  2. Content rendering
    The content can be rendered only for the selected page as long as the RenderSelectedPageOnly property is set to True.
  3. Client-side features
    Telerik RadMultiPage exposes a client-side API, which allows you to interact with the control using JavaScript code.
  4. Server-side functionality
    Using the server-side API, you can dynamically add pages to the PageViews collection of a RadMultiPage instance. You can also create and add dynamic controls to these pages.

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