TabPageItem.HeaderText Property

Gets the text of the item header title.

Namespace: DevExpress.XamarinForms.Navigation

Assembly: DevExpress.XamarinForms.Navigation.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.XamarinForms.Navigation

Declaration

public string HeaderText { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
String	The text of the item header title.

Remarks

In the item’s header, the TabPage displays the icon and text assigned to the Icon and Title properties of the item’s Content page.

The tab item’s HeaderTextColor and SelectedHeaderTextColor properties allow you to specify colors used to paint the text in the item header depending on whether the item is selected or not.

Example

The following code configures a TabPage‘s item according to Material Design guidelines.

XAML

<dxn:TabPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
         xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
         xmlns:local="clr-namespace:TabPageExample"
         xmlns:dxn="http://schemas.devexpress.com/xamarin/2014/forms/navigation"
         x:Class="TabPageExample.MainPage">
    <dxn:TabPageItem HeaderFontSize="14"
                     HeaderFontAttributes="Bold"
                     HeaderTextColor="#99191919"
                     HeaderIconColor="#99191919"
                     HeaderIconPosition="Top"
                     HeaderIconSpacing="4"
                     HeaderWidth="*"
                     HeaderMinWidth="90"
                     HeaderMaxWidth="360"
                     HeaderPadding="16,0,16,0"
                     HeaderVisibleElements="TextAndIcon"
                     SelectedHeaderTextColor="#1e88e5"
                     SelectedHeaderIconColor="#1e88e5"
                     SelectedHeaderBackgroundColor="Transparent">
        <dxn:TabPageItem.Content>
            <ContentPage Title="MAIL" Icon="ic_mail.png">
                <Label Text="Mail List Here" 
                       HorizontalOptions="Center" 
                       VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand"/>
            </ContentPage>
        </dxn:TabPageItem.Content>
    </dxn:TabPageItem>
</dxn:TabPage>

The markup above uses the following properties of the TabPageItem object:

Property	Description
HeaderFontSize	Gets or sets the size of the font for the item header’s text.
HeaderFontAttributes	Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the font for the item header’s text is bold, italic, or neither.
HeaderTextColor	Gets or sets the color the tab item uses in the default state to paint its header text.
HeaderIconColor	Gets or sets the color the tab item uses in the default state to paint its header icon.
HeaderIconPosition	Gets or sets the position of the icon relative to the text in the item header.
HeaderIconSpacing	Gets or sets spacing between the icon and the text in the item header.
HeaderWidth	Gets or sets the item header width when TabView.HeaderPanelPosition is set to Top or Bottom.
HeaderMinWidth	Gets or sets the minimum width of the item header when TabView.HeaderPanelPosition is set to Top or Bottom.
HeaderMaxWidth	Gets or sets the maximum width of the item header when TabView.HeaderPanelPosition is set to Top or Bottom.
HeaderPadding	Gets or sets the inner padding of the item header.
HeaderVisibleElements	Gets or sets a value that specifies elements the item header shows.
SelectedHeaderTextColor	Gets or sets the color the tab item uses in the selected state to paint its header text.
SelectedHeaderIconColor	Gets or sets the color the tab item uses in the selected state to paint its header icon.
SelectedHeaderBackgroundColor	Gets or sets the background color of the tab item header in the selected state.
Content	Gets or sets a page that the TabPage displays in the content area when the item is selected.

Note

TabPage contains the majority of the visual settings that TabPageItem provides. TabPage’s properties simultaneously configures the appearance of all tab items the page contains.