Hello Ryan,
Basically you can achieve this with a small work-around, since you are not able to set template for the header tab item (you can set content only for the content).
The idea is to set the encoded option to
false and insert element which you can later find easily inside of the
text option.
e.g.
Later on you can find and select the tab like this:
I hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
Petur Subev
the Telerik team
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