The Simplified Ribbon control acts as a container to hold other controls, such as buttons, check boxes, text boxes, drop-down lists, etc. It lets you organize related commands and buttons together using the following elements which can contain all the mentioned controls to be used in a simplified ribbon.

• Simplified Tab Item– It wraps the tab header and simplified ribbon group and holds the collection of SimplifiedRibbon group. The simplified tab item is represented by the C1SimplifiedTabItem class which is inherited from the C1TabItem class.

  The C1SimplifiedTabItem class provides Groups property which lets the user get or set different group of options in the toolbar.

• Simplified Ribbon Group - It contains collection of toolbar elements and handles the simplified ribbon control layout which represent toolbar options of a specific type. The simplified ribbon group is represented by the C1SimplifiedRibbonGroup class which inherits the C1ToolbarGroup class.

In addition to the elements listed above, you can also add the toolbar elements to the SimplifiedRibbon. For information on Toolbar elements, see Toolbar Elements.