# Design-Time Support

## Content



Accordion provides design-time support to simplify working with the object model. While the Accordion control includes a smart tag to readily access properties, it also provides a collection editor to quickly add, remove and edit pages.

### Smart Tag

Accordion provides smart tag icon (![WinForms Accordion smart tag](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/a9d1222b-0ddf-4c55-8888-49748b62a8c3/images/smart-tag.png)) to enhance the design-time usability of the control. You can find the icon at the upper-right corner of the control which when clicked opens a smart tag panel.

![Image of the tasks menu](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/a9d1222b-0ddf-4c55-8888-49748b62a8c3/images/accordion-tasks-menu.png)

The **C1Accordion Tasks** panel provides quick access to the **Edit Pages** option of Accordion. Here, you can edit page properties in the Accordion control by just clicking the **Edit Pages** menu item of the **C1Accordion Tasks** panel.

### Accordion Page Collection Editor

**Accordion** provides a page collection editor named ****C1AccordionPage Collection Editor**** to add, remove or edit pages in a page collection at design-time. The **C1AccordionPage Collection Editor** can be accessed either using the **Edit Pages** menu item of the **C1Accordion Tasks** panel or the **Pages** property in the **Properties** window.

The following image displays the **C1AccordionPage Collection Editor**.

![WinForms Accordion Page collection editor](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/a9d1222b-0ddf-4c55-8888-49748b62a8c3/images/accordionpage-collection-editor.png)

The **C1AccordionPage Collection Editor** comprises two panes: left and right. The left pane contains the **Members** section to display the added pages in the collection editor. It also contains the **Add** and **Remove** buttons, to add and remove pages in the Accordion, respectively. This pane also covers the up and down navigation buttons to navigate across different member pages. The right pane contains the **Page properties** section to view or edit the properties of each page in Accordion.