How to Close the Active Pane with a Key Combination

Updated on Sep 15, 2025

Environment

Product Version	2020.3.916
Product	RadDocking for WPF

Description

How to close the active pane with a key combination.

Solution

As of R3 2020, you can use the new ClosePane command to close the currently active pane. The command accepts a parameter of type ClosePaneMode which has three possible values:

• DocumentPanes: The active document pane is closed or if there is no active, the first selected document pane is closed.
• NonDocumentPanes: The active non-document pane is closed, if any.
• ActivePanes: The active pane is closed, if any.

If no parameter is passed, the command will close the currently active pane, if there is such.

Example 1: Binding the ClosePane to Ctrl+F4 for a single RadDocking instance

XAML

    <telerik:RadDocking>
		<!-- ... -->
		<telerik:RadDocking.InputBindings>
			<KeyBinding Command="telerik:RadDockingCommands.ClosePane" CommandParameter="DocumentPanes" Key="F4" Modifiers="Ctrl" />
		</telerik:RadDocking.InputBindings>
	</telerik:RadDocking>

You can also bind the command for all RadDocking controls in your application by using the CommandManager.RegisterClassInputBinding method.

Example 2: Binding the ClosePane to Ctrl+F4 for all RadDocking controls in the application

C#

	public App()
	{
		KeyBinding keyBinding = new KeyBinding(RadDockingCommands.ClosePane, new KeyGesture(Key.F4, ModifierKeys.Control)) { CommandParameter = ClosePaneMode.DocumentPanes };
		CommandManager.RegisterClassInputBinding(typeof(RadDocking), keyBinding);
	}

See Also

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