# Tool-Icon

## Content

Tool-icon is a multi functional tool which appears as an icon either on the surface or in the header of the child container when it is selected with mouse hover. It appears as three dots positioned vertically. The tool-icon can be used to drag and drop a child container by hovering the mouse over it and dragging the child container to another position. On clicking, the tool-icon opens a context menu which by default, displays the options for maximizing or hiding a child container. You can also double-click the tool-icon to maximize or restore the child container.

Furthermore, DashboardLayout allows you to set the location of the tool-icon on the child container using [ToolIconAppearance](/componentone/docs/win/online-dashboardlayout/) property of the <span data-popup-content="This class is available in both \u003ca href=\u0022/componentone/docs/win/online-dashboardlayout/\u0022\u003e.NET\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\u0022/componentone/docs/win/online-dashboardlayout/\u0022\u003e.NET Framework\u003c/a\u003e assemblies." data-popup-title="DashboardOptions" data-popup-theme="ui-tooltip-green qtip-green">DashboardOptions</span> class. This property accepts one of the following values from the [ToolIconAppearance](/componentone/docs/win/online-dashboardlayout/) enumeration:

* None
* UpperLeft
* UpperRight
* LowerLeft
* LowerRight

By default, the value of **ToolIconAppearance** property is set to **None** so the tool-icon is not visible.

The following image shows the tool-icon located at the upper left corner of the child container:

![Dashboard tool-icon](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/ff3fa73b-228c-4f10-9cc6-7c137f26176a/images/tool-icon.png)

The following code shows an example to set the location of the tool-icon:

```csharp
c1DashboardLayout1.Options.ToolIconAppearance = C1.Win.Layout.ToolIconAppearance.UpperLeft;
```

```vbnet
c1DashboardLayout1.Options.ToolIconAppearance = C1.Win.Lay.ToolIconAppearance.UpperLeft
```

When the header is set on a child container, the tool-icon appears on the right side of the header. Otherwise, the tool-icon appears on the surface of the child container. If the tool-icon is not visible, the context menu appears on right clicking the child container.

For more information on styling the tool-icon, see [Styling and Appearance](/componentone/docs/win/online-dashboardlayout/styleappearance) topic.