Question

How can I create tabitems that look like hyperlinks and user is unaware that tabcontrol is used, i.e. no borders on tabitems? So it would like like horizontal menu bar (with no subitems).

Answer 1

You can overwrite the default TabControl.Template to hide the borders, then just style your TabItem headers to look like hyperlinks.

Here’s an example of overwriting the TabControl.Template

<ControlTemplate x:Key="TabControl_NoHeadersTemplate" TargetType="{x:Type TabControl}">
    <DockPanel>
        <!-- TabItem Headers -->
        <StackPanel IsItemsHost="True" DockPanel.Dock="Left" />

        <!-- Selected Tab Content -->
        <ContentPresenter ContentSource="SelectedContent" />
    </DockPanel>
</ControlTemplate>

Then you can use just the following to apply the template:

<TabControl Template="{StaticResource TabControl_NoHeadersTemplate}" />