A user may require many commands in an application in order to work with different scenarios. The commands are usually grouped and put under different Ribbon Tabs. A Ribbon tab can contain many groups. Each Group comprises a set of Items. For instance, in the Office application, the Home tab in the Ribbon is used to perform many common operations like changing fonts, applying styles, changing formats, editing texts (copy, cut and paste) etc. The Home tab contains many groups such as Clipboard, Font, Paragraph and Styles.

Adding Ribbon Tab via Designer

A user can add Tabs from the C1Ribbon floating toolbar. For more information, see the Using Floating ToolBars topic. A Ribbon tab can also be added using RibbonTab Collection Editor from the Properties window of C1Ribbon or Contextual Tab Group by clicking on the ellipsis next to the Tabs property. For more information about Collection Editors, refer this topic.

Adding Ribbon Tab via Code

Further, the user can add Tabs in the Ribbon through code with the RibbonTab class and Tabs property of C1Ribbon class.

' Create and add a new tab to the Ribbon control
Dim homeTab As New RibbonTab()
' Label the tab
homeTab.Text = "Home"
customRibbon.Tabs.Add(homeTab)

// Create and add the "Home" tab
RibbonTab homeTab = new RibbonTab();            
homeTab.Text = "Home";
customRibbon.Tabs.Add(homeTab);