Force tab width via script?

Is there a way to force the width of tabs in the tabstrip? I used some HTML to make the display text wrap, but the tab width seems to include the length of the invisible HTML. I’d happily script around it, but the tabstrip component is a real monster to play with…

Not an ideal solution but you could always remove the text on each tab and overlay them with labels or buttons with no borders and transparent backgrounds. In the label/button events set the tab control’s selected tab to the correct value. You can control the width of the tabs by adjusting their Text Padding values.