In this post I’ll show how to set the tab index to Telerik tabstrip or get the selected tab index using client scripting i.e. JQuery. Set the tab index: Create one function in your JQuery plugin or page, and call this function on either OnLoad of tabstrip or anywhere else you want to set the tab index. function SetTabStrip() { //Get the tab strip. var tabStrip = $( "#TabStrip" ).data( "tTabStrip" ); //Set the tab index on which tab you want to navigate. var index = 0; //Get the DOM element using Index var domElement = $( "li" , tabStrip.element)[index]; //Finally select that DOM element. tabStrip.select(domElement); } Get the tab index: Same way you can create one function to get selected index method using below code (or you can find tab index in existing method if you want). function GetTabStripIndex() { // Find selected tab and then get ind