TabControl::Padding Property

 

Gets or sets the amount of space around each item on the control's tab pages.

Namespace:   System.Windows.Forms
Assembly:  System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)

public:
property Point Padding {
	Point get();
	void set(Point value);
}

Property Value

Type: System.Drawing::Point

A Point that specifies the amount of space around each item. The default is (6,3).

Exception Condition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The width or height of the Point is less than 0.

The following code example creates a TabControl with two TabPage objects. The Padding property is used to create a cushion of 22 pixels around the tab TextmyTabPage1 and myTabPage2.

Use the System.Drawing and System.Windows.Forms namespaces for this example.

using namespace System::Drawing;
using namespace System::Windows::Forms;
public ref class Form1: public Form
{
private:
   TabControl^ tabControl1;
   TabPage^ tabPage1;
   TabPage^ tabPage2;
   void MyTabs()
   {
      this->tabControl1 = gcnew TabControl;
      this->tabPage1 = gcnew TabPage;
      this->tabPage2 = gcnew TabPage;
      this->tabControl1->Multiline = true;
      array<Control^>^temp0 = {this->tabPage1,this->tabPage2};
      this->tabControl1->Controls->AddRange( temp0 );
      this->tabControl1->Location = Point(35,25);
      this->tabControl1->Size = System::Drawing::Size( 220, 220 );

      // Creates a cushion of 22 pixels around TabPage.Text strings.
      this->tabControl1->Padding = System::Drawing::Point( 22, 22 );
      this->tabPage1->Text = "myTabPage1";
      this->tabPage2->Text = "myTabPage2";
      this->Size = System::Drawing::Size( 300, 300 );
      array<Control^>^temp1 = {this->tabControl1};
      this->Controls->AddRange( temp1 );
   }


public:
   Form1()
   {
      MyTabs();
   }

};

int main()
{
   Application::Run( gcnew Form1 );
}

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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