adding tabitem to Tabstrip (ms ie webcontrol question)

[Hal]

I am trying to programmatically build a tabstrip (creating a template
class for my site that contains a tabstrip in the header).

I have a form (as htmlform) to which I am adding controls and html
(via literalcontrol) and I try to add the tabstrip the same way.

'declare and initialize as appropriate:
Dim tsTopNav As Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.TabStrip = New
Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.TabStrip

Dim tiHome As Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.TabItem

'set tabstrip properties
tsTopNav.ID = "tsTopNav"
tsTopNav.AutoPostBack = True
tsTopNav.SepDefaultImageUrl = "/gfx/spacer.gif"
tsTopNav.TabDefaultStyle.Add("background-color:", "#e6e6e6")
tsTopNav.TabDefaultStyle.Add("font-family", "verdana")
etc...

form.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl)
tiHome.Text = "Home"
tsTopNav.Items.Add(tiHome)

and I get
"Object Reference not set to and instance of an object" in the line
where tiHome.text = "Home" happens.

Somehow tiHome is not properly being set up.

Help!
-
Hal

 

[Hal]

got it... the rather obvious (thought I had tried it and then finally
went back and tried it again out of frustration)

Dim tHome As Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.Tab = New
Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.Tab

tstopnav.items.add(tHome)