Contents 1 Tabs and Pages in Dialogs 1.1 Tabbed Dialogs 1.2 Paged Dialogs 1.3 Accessibility 1.4 See Also

[edit] Tabs and Pages in Dialogs

General Guidelines

If a control affects only one tab or page in the dialog, place it on that tab/page. If it affects every tab/page in the dialog, place it outside, for example beside the window's OK and Cancel buttons.

Make sure changes on one tab will not change options on another tab.

[edit] Tabbed Dialogs

When to Use

Use tabbed dialogs when you have a limited number of tabs (max. 6). If you cannot see all the tabs without scrolling or splitting them into multiple rows, you are probably using too many and should use a paged dialog instead.

[edit] Paged Dialogs

When to Use

Always use paged dialogs for configuration dialogs - assuming that there is more than one section of options to be configured. For other dialogs, use paged dialogs if there are too many tabs to put them into a tabbed dialog.

[edit] Accessibility

Do not assign accelerator keys to tab and paged dialog labels. Assign an access key to every other control on each page, however.

[edit] See Also

• Dialogs