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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:39:23+00:00

I’m trying to use a google visualisation, the column chart, inside an asp.net AJAX

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I’m trying to use a google visualisation, the column chart, inside an asp.net AJAX Toolkit Tab Control, but I’m having small (literally) problems.

If I add the visualisation to the tab that’s displayed by default when the page loads, the bar chart displays correctly, however, if I add the same control to another tab and reload the page, when I click on the other tab, the control is displayed, but its tiny and unusable.

Here’s some code for a test.aspx page that illustrates the problem:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="TestProject._Default" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="cc1" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title></title>

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        google.load('visualization', '1', { packages: ['columnchart'] });
    </script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        function drawVisualization() {
            // Create and populate the data table.
            var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
            data.addColumn('string', 'Name');
            data.addColumn('number', 'Height');
            data.addRows(3);
            data.setCell(0, 0, 'Tong Ning mu');
            data.setCell(1, 0, 'Huang Ang fa');
            data.setCell(2, 0, 'Teng nu');
            data.setCell(0, 1, 174);
            data.setCell(1, 1, 523);
            data.setCell(2, 1, 86);

            // Create and draw the visualizations.
            new google.visualization.ColumnChart(document.getElementById('visualization1')).
            draw(data, null);
            new google.visualization.ColumnChart(document.getElementById('visualization2')).
            draw(data, null);
        }
        google.setOnLoadCallback(drawVisualization);
    </script>

</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
    </asp:ScriptManager>
    <div>
        <cc1:TabContainer ID="TabContainer1" runat="server">
            <cc1:TabPanel runat="server" HeaderText="TabPanel1" ID="TabPanel1">
                <ContentTemplate>
                    <div id="visualization1" style="width: 300px; height: 300px;">
                    </div>
                </ContentTemplate>
            </cc1:TabPanel>
            <cc1:TabPanel runat="server" HeaderText="TabPanel1" ID="TabPanel2">
                <ContentTemplate>
                    <div id="visualization2" style="width: 300px; height: 300px;">
                    </div>
                </ContentTemplate>
            </cc1:TabPanel>
        </cc1:TabContainer>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, I didn’t get a single response to this post so here is how I worked around the problem, hope it helps someone.

    I never actually got the the root of this problem but I found that if I delayed the loading of the Visualisations till the tab that contains it is clicked then the problem goes away.

    In the TabControl I call a JavaScript function to load the tabs visualisation when clicked:

    <cc1:TabContainer ID="TabContainer1" runat="server" OnClientActiveTabChanged="tabChanged">
  <cc1:TabPanel runat="server" HeaderText="TabPanel1" ID="TabPanel1">
    <ContentTemplate>
      <div id="visualization1" style="width: 300px; height: 300px;"></div>
    </ContentTemplate>
  </cc1:TabPanel>
    <cc1:TabPanel runat="server" HeaderText="TabPanel1" ID="TabPanel2">
      <ContentTemplate>
        <div id="visualization2" style="width: 300px; height: 300px;"></div>
      </ContentTemplate>
  </cc1:TabPanel>
</cc1:TabContainer>

    The JavaScript function

    function tabChanged(sender, args) {
        var ActiveTab = sender.get_activeTabIndex();
        if (sender.get_activeTabIndex() == 0) {
            if (tab0Loaded != true) { 
                //load the visualisation
                new google.visualization.ColumnChart(document.getElementById('visualization2')).draw(data, null);
                tab0Loaded = true
            }
        }
        if (sender.get_activeTabIndex() == 1) {
            if (tab1Loaded != true) { 
                //load the visualisation
                new google.visualization.ColumnChart(document.getElementById('visualization2')).draw(data, null);
                tab1Loaded = true
            }
        }

 }

    During postback the active tab could change, to cope with this I have a JavaScript function that executes when the page loads, if the current active tab is one containing a visualisation then I load it.

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