Selected TabPage style in Winform Tab Control

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Introduction

In winform application, TabControl doesn't have any property to change the Font style or Color. But we can change the selected tab page style using DrawItem event in tabcontrol programatically. See the below pictures for different styles.

Style 1:

You can give two color for Tab page in the following way.

bshBack = new System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush(e.Bounds,
Color.LightSkyBlue , Color.LightGreen, 
System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientMode.BackwardDiagonal);
bshFore = Brushes.Blue;

Style 2:

Here I just change the font bold property.

Style 3

In this way, we can apply any color or font to the Tab Controls and Tab Pages.

Conclusion

I think this article will help you to apply the colors and font to a tap pages and any help, comments are much appreciated!