Hello Gary,
We are not quite sure if we understand your exact requirements. For example, what do you mean by "to use the <tabs></tabs> for child tabs (not multi-page)"? As on your other points, they are mostly related to the appearance of the tabstrip, therefore I suggest you take a look at the control's documentation under section
RadTabStrip --> Appearance and Styling.
In addition, please have in mind that a post in the Support Forums doesn't guarantee you
a response from the Telerik support team although 95% of all posts are eventually answered. Additionally, a post is not assigned a response time as with the
support ticketing system. In case you need a faster and precise response, please start a new
support ticket as it gets higher priority than Forum posts.
All the best,
Paul
the Telerik team