How to Prevent Focus Rectangle Drawing in Tabs

18 Nov 20181 minute to read

You can easily do this by handling the DrawItem event, adjusting the DrawTabEventArgs and delegating drawing to the default drawing logic.

C#

private void TabControlExt_DrawItem(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DrawTabEventArgs drawItemInfo)

{

// To indicate that the tab gets drawn as if it’s not focused (without the focus rect).

drawItemInfo.State &= ~DrawItemState.Focus;



// Then forward drawing to default drawing logic.

drawItemInfo.DrawBackground();

drawItemInfo.DrawInterior();

drawItemInfo.DrawBorders();

}

VB.NET

Private Sub TabControlExt_DrawItem(sender As Object, drawItemInfo As Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DrawTabEventArgs)

'To indicate that the tab gets drawn as if it’s not focused (without the focus rect).

Dim & As drawItemInfo.State = ~DrawItemState.Focus



'Then forward drawing to default drawing logic.

drawItemInfo.DrawBackground()

drawItemInfo.DrawInterior()

drawItemInfo.DrawBorders()

End Sub