htmltabbed-view

How do I make a tabbed view in HTML?

When clicking on tab A, show content for tab A. Click on tab B, show content for tab B, and so on.

What's the most simple and compatible way of constructing a HTML snippet?

I don't mean to use any libraries here, so none of jQuery or any other libraries.

Solution

  • If you want to roll your own tab control, you could do something like this:

    <html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript">

      function activateTab(pageId) {
          var tabCtrl = document.getElementById('tabCtrl');
          var pageToActivate = document.getElementById(pageId);
          for (var i = 0; i < tabCtrl.childNodes.length; i++) {
              var node = tabCtrl.childNodes[i];
              if (node.nodeType == 1) { /* Element */
                  node.style.display = (node == pageToActivate) ? 'block' : 'none';
              }
          }
      }

    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href="javascript:activateTab('page1')">Tab 1</a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="javascript:activateTab('page2')">Tab 2</a>
      </li>
      ...
    </ul>
    <div id="tabCtrl">
      <div id="page1" style="display: block;">Page 1</div>
      <div id="page2" style="display: none;">Page 2</div>
      ...
    </div>
  </body>
</html>