Tab and Enable

Hello

I′m using the tab component and i would like to know how can i disable all the controls inside a tab automatically avoding editing.

Best regards,

Borja

could you not just loop through all the controls in the tabcontainer?

for each ctl as Control in tabcontainer.controls

ctl.enable=false

next

?

What′s the difference between enable and visible in the tab?

I believe enable=false will just gray out the tab and make it unselectable, where as visible=false will make it disappear completely.

Put all the controls you want to disable in a panel for example, and disable the panel? All the controls inside it will be disabled..

As he said, disabled controls (enabled=false) will be grayed out, while controls with visible=false will not be visible at all for the user. Which is also not the same as using style="display:none;" nor style="visibility:hidden;"... If you are gonna toggle between hiding and showing stuff, I recommend the last techniques as you can show/hide simply with css. (don't use style="", but rather define it in css if possible)

Tab Control - Enable/Disable Tab on Client

I'm using the AJAX Toolkit TabContainer control and would like to enable/disable tabs on the clientside. I have tried document.getElementById('MyTabContainer').get_tabs()[1].set_enabled(true), but I get the error "Object does not support this property or method." Just to try to capture the appropriate object, I added the OnClientActiveTabChanged="switchTab" attribute to my TabContainer. Then, in JavaScript I wrote a switchTab function: function switchTab(sender, e){ ... } Thesender passed into the switchTab function is the actual TabContainer object I need, and from that I can enable/disable tabs. My problem is I can't figure out how to retrieve the TabContainer object other than capturing the object when sent into the switchTab routine. Any ideas?

Finally solved my own problem, and it was right there in the sample Tab application in the Control Toolkit: http://ajax.asp.net/ajaxtoolkit/Tabs/Tabs.aspx. I was able to find the object I needed in JavaScript using the $find method, as similarly done in the demo with the following snippet:

function ToggleHidden(value) {
$find('ctl00_SampleContent_Tabs').get_tabs()[2].set_enabled(value);
}