Is It Possible To Customize TabControl Tabs Style In WPF?

[IT_Soft]

I am wondering, how can I customize the TabControl Tabs Style in WPF using XAML.
Is there any easy way of doing it?

[jms]

I believe I answered similar question a while ago.

What you need to do is, re-style your TabItem Control. That’s the Control WPF uses to represent Tabs within any given TabControl.

An simple TabItem Style should look something like this:

<Style x:Key="MyNewTabItemStyle" TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent" />
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
                <Border x:Name="PART_Border" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="LightGray" Margin="2">
                    <ContentPresenter ContentSource="Header" Margin="2" />
                </Border>
                <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                    <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                        <Setter TargetName="PART_Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="Black" />
                    </Trigger>
                </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

P.S. You can also make it a bit “fancy” by adding Animated Triggers, Colors…etc. But the XAML code snippet above should get you on track.

For a more detailed answer please check this thread:

How to make a custom and advanced TabControl in WPF, using XAML only?

As for all WPF Controls the best approach to style them is to use clean XAML markup and avoid code behind as you can. (forget the Windows Forms design approach). Here is a full style for both TabControl and TabItem controls, i used this style in one of my WPF applications few months ago, so it should work for you as well: TabItem can be styled this way: <Style TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent" /> <Setter Property="Template"> <Se…