If the above mentioned information is not what you are looking for, please provide me with a sketch where the area which you want to collapse is highlighted.
I am looking forward to your reply.
Kind regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team
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In this case you should collapse the ribbon as in my first suggestion from the previous post.
Additionally, if you want to prevent the ribbon from expanding/collapsing when double clicked and to hide the expand/collapse button, please consider the following code: