Appearance in WPF TabControl (TabControlExt)
18 Sep 2020 / 2 minutes to read
This section explains different UI customization and theming options available in TabControl.
Change flow direction
You can change the flow direction of the TabControl
layout from right to left by setting the FlowDirection
property value as RightToLeft
. The default value of FlowDirection
property is LeftToRight
.
<syncfusion:TabControlExt FlowDirection="RightToLeft"
Name="tabControlExt">
<syncfusion:TabItemExt Content="This is the first tab item"
Header="tabItem1"/>
</syncfusion:TabControlExt>
tabControlExt.FlowDirection = FlowDirection.RightToLeft;
NOTE
View Sample in GitHub
Theme
You can customize the appearance of the TabControl
control by using the SfSkinManager.SetVisualStyle method and SfSkinManager.VisualStyle
property . The following are the various built-in visual styles for TabControl
control.
- Blend
- Default
- Lime
- MaterialDark
- MaterialDarkBlue
- MaterialLight
- MaterialLightBlue
- Metro
- Office2010Black
- Office2010Blue
- Office2010Silver
- Office2013DarkGray
- Office2013LightGray
- Office2013White
- Office2016Colorful
- Office2016DarkGray
- Office2016White
- Office2019Black
- Office2019Colorful
- Office365
- Saffron
- SystemTheme
- VisualStudio2013
- VisualStudio2015
Here, the Blend
style is applied to the TabControl
.
<Window
xmlns:syncfusion="http://schemas.syncfusion.com/wpf"
xmlns:syncfusionskin ="clr-namespace:Syncfusion.SfSkinManager;assembly=Syncfusion.SfSkinManager.WPF">
<Grid>
<syncfusion:TabControlExt syncfusionskin:SfSkinManager.VisualStyle="Blend"
Name="tabControlExt"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
//Namespace for the SfSkinManager.
using Syncfusion.SfSkinManager;
TabControlExt tabControlExt = new TabControlExt();
SfSkinManager.SetVisualStyle(tabControlExt, VisualStyles.Blend);
NOTE
View Sample in GitHub
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