[Solved] Sliding Panelbar w/Tooltip

[Jeff Snyder]

Hi,

I'm using the sliding panelbar for main navigation throughout my site.  Since PanelItems do not allow for an ID property in the ASPX page, I have added client IDs to the panel items in the code behind:

Dim Item As RadPanelItem
Dim SubItem As RadPanelItem
Dim S As Integer = 1

For Each Item In RadPanelbar1.Items
    Item.Attributes.Add("id","panel" + CStr((Item.Index + 1)))
    For Each SubItem In RadPanelbar1.Items(Item.Index).Items
        SubItem.Attributes.Add("id", "subpanel_s" + CStr(S) + "_" + CStr((Item.Index + 1)))
    Next
    S = S + 1
Next

Here's a line of code that attaches a tooltip to one of the panel items:

<telerik:RadToolTip Position="MiddleRight" Sticky="true" RelativeTo="Element" ID="RadToolTip1" runat="server" IsClientID="true" TargetControlID="panel1">
    Explore status of unit(s) against the current timeline.
</telerik:RadToolTip>

The tooltip does not display for the panel item in question.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Jeff

[Jeff Snyder]

After stepping through the code, I found that the client ID is being assigned internally by your code.  I was able to set the ToolTip based upon the naming conventions that the RadPanelBar uses.  Just curious - why don't we have access to the client ID within the ASPX page?

[Rosi]

Hello Jeff Snyder,

Thanks for your question.

ID of RadPanelBar's items are used from internal purposes.Also RadPanelBar for ASP.NET AJAX does not render IDs for the panel items in order to reduce the output size.That is the reason why we suggest using of custom attributes instead of ID property.

Regards,
Rosi
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