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setting default tab through cookie

Hi everyone,

My site has six tabs using the asp.net tabcontainer. I would like, through a checkbox, to let a user be able to set tab six as the default tab that opens up when (s)he visits the site. I imagine I need a cookie to do this? I haven't worked with cookies yet, and don't know how to code this, or whether this should be done server side or with javascript...

I'm using asp.net with C#.

TIA!

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Feivi99

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lolol. You're in good form today. I don't know where to look first :-)

Opalelement

You can probably find your tab changing code here: http://forums.asp.net/p/1296454/2520410.aspx

Feivi99

ASKER

That link enables to set up a default tab, but it would be the same for everyone, not per user. I'm pretty sure that the way to do it is with a cookie. I'll be studying the cookie dough, er, code you've given me to see if I can figure out how to incorporate the tab information..

Opalelement

Well i meant specifically this part:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
TabContainer1.ActiveTab = TabContainer1.Tabs(1)
'Take the tab index from session instead. Also, use IsPostBack for better performance
End Sub

I think you can use that for the cookie... Not as-is, but using this line:

TabContainer1.ActiveTab = TabContainer1.Tabs(1)

Feivi99

ASKER

Looking around that site, I found this,

http://forums.asp.net/p/1300797/2919897.aspx#2919897

which is what I was looking for. And yes, it conforms to that other page.