Find Tab Before Adding

[Mark]

Hi
I am adding tabs client-side. However, i do not want to create duplicate tabs.
Is there a simple way of detecting if a tab already exists in the tabstrip ?

I have tried to iterate through each tab, but can not figure out how to get text of tab... (see code below)

var textValue;
var index;
var exists = false;
$('#SampleTabStrip a').each(function () {
   textValue= $.data(this, 'tTabStrip');
   if (textValue== newTextValue) { exists = true; index = $(this).attr('text'); }
})

I pass newTextValue into function but my attributes dont seem to be correct for the matching process...

Any ideas please?

Thanks
Mark

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Mark,

 This 
textValue= $.data(this, 'tTabStrip');

will not get the text of the tab. You need to use the text() jQuery method to get the text content of a html element. Please change your code to this:

$('#SampleTabStrip a').each(function () {

   textValue= $(this).text();
   // ...

}

Kind regards,

Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Mark]

Yes !!
That worked...many Thanks

Mark