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Posts Tagged ‘AJAX’

by George Zheng

Problem

AJAX Control Toolkit has a neat control – TabContainer, to allow you create tabs on your web page easily. However, one problem with it is that when user refreshes the page, it defaults back to the first tab. This will cause user confusion if you have pagination in third tab let’s say. Every time, when user click a page number on third tab. Page get refreshed and it should show third tab, not the first tab.

Solution

The reason refreshed page always show the first tab is, in fact, one of the benefits of the tab control – switching between tabs doesn’t cause a post back. This is a pure client activity. When server prepares the page, it has no idea which tab is the active tab on client side. So server will set first tab as active tab by default.
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