Best way to initialize an Contextual Tab?

Question

I've a custom contextual ribbon tab element and I'm initializing it throw the following code on a webcontrol hosted on the masterpage:

   protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
    {
        LoadRibbonCustomTab("MyRibbonTab", SPRibbon.GetCurrent(Page));
        base.OnPreRender(e);
    }

    public void LoadRibbonCustomTab(string tabId, SPRibbon ribbon)
    {
        if (ribbon == null) return;
        ribbon.Minimized = false;
        ribbon.CommandUIVisible = true;

        if (!ribbon.IsTabAvailable(tabId))
            ribbon.MakeTabAvailable(tabId);
    }

but every time I get a page load a weird thing just occur, the SPRibbon just shift down and get back to the original place. What I'm doing wrong? Any other optimized/cleanest way to initialize this? Any opinions r welcome!

Answer 1

Try this:

public void LoadRibbonCustomTab(string tabId, SPRibbon ribbon)
{
        if (ribbon == null) return;
        ribbon.Minimized = false;
        ribbon.CommandUIVisible = true;

        if (!ribbon.IsTabAvailable(tabId))
            ribbon.MakeTabAvailable(tabId);

        ribbon.InitialTabId = tabId;
}