Skip to main content

DevExpress v24.2 Update — Your Feedback Matters

Our What's New in v24.2 webpage includes product-specific surveys. Your response to our survey questions will help us measure product satisfaction for features released in this major update and help us refine our plans for our next major release.

Take the survey Not interested

XtraTabControl.Appearance Property

Gets the appearance settings used to paint the XtraTabControl.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraTab

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v24.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Navigation

#Declaration

[DXCategory("Appearance")]
public virtual AppearanceObject Appearance { get; }

#Property Value

Type Description
AppearanceObject

A AppearanceObject object which provides the appearance settings used to paint the tab control.

#Remarks

Use the Appearance property to specify the tab control’s background color and gradient mode. The control’s XtraTabControl.BackColor property is equivalent to the BackColor property accessible via the Appearance property.

To customize the appearance of all the tab pages in the XtraTabControl use the XtraTabControl.AppearancePage property. To provide custom appearance settings for individual tab pages use the XtraTabPage.Appearance property.

For more information on appearances, see the Application Appearance and Skin Colors document.

See Also