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Tab Control

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IMPORTANT

Bootstrap Controls for ASP.NET Core are in maintenance mode. We don’t add new controls or develop new functionality for this product line. Our recommendation is to use the ASP.NET Core Controls suite.

The Bootstrap Tab Control provides a visual interface for creating custom tabbed layouts. The Tab Control provides only navigation means and requires manually updating specific content to reflect a selected tab’s changes.

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The Bootstrap Tab Control offers you an extremely flexible means to control end-user interaction. Numerous server-side settings, client-side API and events allow you to take full control over how your tab control responds to user actions. You have complete control over what user action activates a tab, and whether there should be a postback, callback or client processing. Note that the most frequently used scenarios are already built-in - you just need to toggle a property.

This topic lists the features that are unique to the web controls from the Bootstrap Tab Control.

Control Features

  • Templates can be specified for tabs in both active and inactive states, and for each tab individually.
  • The Tab Control supports two ways to activate a tab - by clicking it or by hovering over it with the mouse pointer.

Client-Side Features

  • Client-side events allow you to perform custom actions when an end-user clicks on a tab, and immediately after the corresponding page has been loaded. If you use AJAX functionality, you will need these events to indicate that a callback is in progress.
  • You can use the client-side API to activate tabs and obtain tab information.
NOTE

Online Demo: The Client-Side Events and Client-Side Functionality online demos illustrate client-side API.

Tab Features

  • Customizable tab spacing.
  • Tab position and alignment can be changed to display tabs at any edge and corner of the Tab Control.
  • You can specify tooltips for tabs.
  • Tabs can display supplementary information within a badge.
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