WPF ToolTip only on tab name

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Hi!
what I'm trying to do is showing tool tip only on tab name (like in browsers), not on whole tab grid. I've searched Google but i have not found nothing interesting. Any idea how to do that?

Posted 3-Dec-12 5:14am

Tapirro

Updated 3-Dec-12 5:15am

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Sanket Panchamia 28-May-13 11:32am

I have a code that is as follows
<tabitem name="TabItem4">
<tabitem.header>
<textblock text="U2 - Empty" foreground="Black" margin="0,0,0,0" height="20" verticalalignment="Center" name="txtU2" tooltip="testingTip">

I am not getting the tooltip text. Any comments?

Tapirro 28-May-13 12:07pm

Any error or warnings comming from Visual? For me this solution works perfectly.

Sanket Panchamia 28-May-13 12:29pm

just no tooltip. Thats it

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N_tro_P · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-03T07:33:00

You are likely setting it on the Tab not the header. Try the header instead. This may require you to restyle the header.
You can restyle the header how ever you want though and then set the tooltip for the UI element you use to display the header.

Something like this should work.

Note: this was not tested so there may be errors in it.

XML

<TabControl x:Name="tabCtrlMain" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}" >
        <TabControl.Resources>
            <Style TargetType="TabItem">
                <Setter Property="Header" Value="{Binding FileName}" />
                <Setter Property="HeaderTemplate">
                    <Setter.Value>
                        <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type TabItem}">
                            <Border x:Name="grid">
                                    <ContentPresenter>
                                        <ContentPresenter.Content>
                                            <TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Content}" Tooltip="{Binding Path=TooltInfo}"/>
                                        </ContentPresenter.Content>
                                    </ContentPresenter>
                                </Border>
                        </DataTemplate>
                    </Setter.Value>
                </Setter>
            </Style>
        </TabControl.Resources>
    </TabControl>

If you are directly adding tabs in XAML then just code right to the header.

i.e.

XML

<TabItem>
    <TabItem.Header>
        <Grid>
            <Grid.ToolTip>
                <!--Place your tooltip content here-->
            </Grid.ToolTip>

        </Grid>
    </TabItem.Header>

</TabItem>