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Text direction & scrollbar in tabbar with orientation on left

Hi,

I am facing following issues with tabbar component when placed in left or right orientation:

1. The tab labels are horizontal (as shown in the sample example: http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxTabbar/samples/03_orientation/03_left.html). I want the labels to be aligned as per the tab direction (as shown on the main page of tabbar in LiveDemo: http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxTabbar/index.shtml).

2. If i am having more than 4-5 tabs on left/right orientation, its not adding scrollbar and my other tabs go out of viewable area and there is no way to access them. (You can try adding a few more tabs to sample page: http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxTabbar/samples/03_orientation/03_left.html to reproduce the issue).

Hope these are not the limitations with the product and require some specific setting which i am missing and are also not mentioned in the samples.

Could you please help me with these two issues.

Thanks & Regards,
Vibhav Agrawal

1) There is no cross-browser way to rotate the text , so the tabbar on the main page use images. 
Instead of 
       tabbar.(id,"some_text","100px");
you can use
       tabbar.(id,"<img src='some_text.gif'>","100px");
where some_text.gif - image of rotated text.

2) Actually this is a limitation in current version. 
Which skin you are using for tabbar? In case of dhx_blue, I think we will be able to send some kind of patch , which will add scrolling functionality for left and right orientation of tabbar. 

Thanks for the update.
I was planning to use SkyBlue/modern skin. But if its limitation, then we can use blue as well but SkyBlue would be great.

Could you please let me know the process of getting the patch.

Thanks,
Vibhav Agrawal