Hello all,

I just want to let you know, in order to ensure correctly applied custom classes, for the time being avoid using any of the following default css classes keywords as GroupActive, GroupDisabled, GroupHover, GroupSelected, etc. This will ensure these are correctly applied. For example use any other names and instead of.
                    //group.ActiveCssClass = "webs_GroupActive";
                    //group.CssClass = "webs_Group";
                    //group.DisabledCssClass = "webs_GroupDisabled";
                    //group.HoverCssClass = "webs_GroupHover";
                    //group.SelectedCssClass = "webs_GroupSelected"; 

Use different names instead like:

                  group.ActiveCssClass = "webs_active";
                  group.CssClass = "webs_mainGroup";
                  group.DisabledCssClass = "webs_disabledGroup";
                  group.HoverCssClass = "webs_hoverGroup";
                  group.SelectedCssClass = "webs_selectedGroup";

Ok, thank you.

Hello,

I have investigated this issue and I have asked our engineering staff to examine this further. To ensure that it will receive attention, I have logged this behavior in our internal tracking system with a Development ID of #207882: “WebExplorerBar custom Group styles are not applied when passing custom styles either from code behind OR from the Markup”.

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Thanks for your reply.  I need to set the styles of the groups and items in the code behind, it is a requirement (I realize the test app is not perfect, it just demonstrates the issue). 

I tried the solutions in the 3 links (the databinding post doesn't apply since I am not calling DataBind()) and I get the same result......I am able to set the item css class properties, but group css properties revert back to the default styles (please look at the markup that is generated and you can see this).  I can step through the code and see that the group sytles are being set, but then are reverted back somehow when the html is generated. 

To simplify things I took my application and removed all functionality, but I call this code in all page and control events that make sense (init, load, prerender, etc....):

                webNavigation.Groups[0].ActiveCssClass = "webs_GroupActive";
                webNavigation.Groups[0].CssClass = "webs_Group";
                webNavigation.Groups[0].DisabledCssClass = "webs_GroupDisabled";
                webNavigation.Groups[0].HoverCssClass = "webs_GroupHover";
                webNavigation.Groups[0].SelectedCssClass = "webs_GroupSelected";

and the group css still reverts back to the base style.  It looks like it just does not work with the version of controls that I am using (14.1.20141.2150).  I have also tried version 14.2.20142.2480 and get the same results (group css properties are not set-able from code behind).