Creating Tab Groups in WPF Tabbed MDI Form (DocumentContainer)

18 Feb 20253 minutes to read

you can create tab groups for the tabitem of TDI mode DocumentContainer by dragging and also using the options in context menu items.

Creating tab groups using context menu item

You can create a new horizontal or vertical tab groups for the TDI DocumentContainer by clicking the New Horizontal Tab Group or New Vertical Tab Group options available in the tabitem context menu.

XAML

<syncfusion:DocumentContainer Mode="TDI" 
                              x:Name="documentContainer" >
    <ContentControl syncfusion:DocumentContainer.Header="item1"
                    Name="item1" />
    <ContentControl syncfusion:DocumentContainer.Header="item2"
                    Name="item2" />
</syncfusion:DocumentContainer>

NOTE

Tab groups created only in TDI mode of the DocumentContainer. You can enable it by setting the Mode property value as TDI.

Creating tab groups using tabitem dragging

You can create new horizontal tab group for the TDI DocumentContainer tab item by dragging the tabitem into the Document area and click the New Tab Group menu item from context menu item. You can cancel this tab group creation by clicking the Cancel menu item from context menu item.

XAML

<syncfusion:DocumentContainer Mode="TDI" 
                              x:Name="documentContainer" >
    <ContentControl syncfusion:DocumentContainer.Header="item1"
                    Name="item1" />
    <ContentControl syncfusion:DocumentContainer.Header="item2"
                    Name="item2" />
</syncfusion:DocumentContainer>

Creating tab groups programmatically

You can programmatically creates a tab group on horizontally or vertically by using the CreateHorizontalTabGroup and CreateVerticalTabGroup methods.

XAML

<syncfusion:DocumentContainer Mode="TDI" 
                              Loaded="DocumentContainer_Loaded"
                              x:Name="documentContainer" >
    <ContentControl syncfusion:DocumentContainer.Header="item1"
                    Name="item1" />
    <ContentControl syncfusion:DocumentContainer.Header="item2"
                    Name="item2" />
</syncfusion:DocumentContainer>

C#

private void DocumentContainer_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {
    documentContainer.CreateVerticalTabGroup(item1 as UIElement);
}