A Panel is a control that contains other controls. You can use a Panel to group collections of controls such as a group of RadioButton controls. As with other container controls such as the GroupBox control, if the Panel control's enabled property is set to false, the controls contained within the Panel will also be disabled.

The Panel control is displayed by default without any borders. You can provide a standard or three-dimensional border using the border style property to distinguish the area of the panel from other areas on the form. Because the Panel control derives from the scrollable class, you can use the autoscroll property to enable scroll bars in the Panel control. When the autoscroll property is set to true, any controls located within the Panel (but outside of its visible region), can be scrolled to with the scroll bars provided.

The Panel control does not display a caption. If you need a control similar to a Panel that can display a caption, see the GroupBox control.

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