Tabs

Tabs are elements that help you organize and navigate multiple documents in a single container. They can be used for switching between items in the container.


Horizontal Tabs

Tab 1
Tab 2
Tab 3
Tab 4

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Second panel content goes here. Panel 2. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Third panel content goes here. Panel 3. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Fourth panel content goes here. Panel 4. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.


Basic

You can create a group of horizontal tabs using minimal markup.

HTML

<dl class="tabs" data-tab> <dd class="active"><a href="#panel2-1">Tab 1</a></dd> <dd><a href="#panel2-2">Tab 2</a></dd> <dd><a href="#panel2-3">Tab 3</a></dd> <dd><a href="#panel2-4">Tab 4</a></dd> </dl> <div class="tabs-content"> <div class="content active" id="panel2-1"> <p>First panel content goes here...</p> </div> <div class="content" id="panel2-2"> <p>Second panel content goes here...</p> </div> <div class="content" id="panel2-3"> <p>Third panel content goes here...</p> </div> <div class="content" id="panel2-4"> <p>Fourth panel content goes here...</p> </div> </div>

Rendered HTML

Tab 1
Tab 2
Tab 3
Tab 4

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Vertical Tabs

You can create a group of vertical tabs using minimal markup.

HTML

<dl class="tabs vertical" data-tab> <dd class="active"><a href="#panel1a">Tab 1</a></dd> <dd><a href="#panel2a">Tab 2</a></dd> <dd><a href="#panel3a">Tab 3</a></dd> <dd><a href="#panel4a">Tab 4</a></dd> </dl> <div class="tabs-content vertical"> <div class="content active" id="panel1a"> <p>Panel 1 content goes here.</p> </div> <div class="content" id="panel2a"> <p>Panel 2 content goes here.</p> </div> <div class="content" id="panel3a"> <p>Panel 3 content goes here.</p> </div> <div class="content" id="panel4a"> <p>Panel 4 content goes here.</p> </div> </div>

Rendered HTML

Tab 1
Tab 2
Tab 3
Tab 4

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Panel 2 content goes here. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Repellat, quos ullam soluta pariatur optio magni repudiandae obcaecati quidem consequuntur possimus quam dicta culpa quia aut odit placeat ut amet nesciunt.

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Panel 4 content goes here. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Error, quo voluptas ratione assumenda beatae tenetur tempora accusamus quisquam rem ad deserunt magni asperiores voluptatibus aperiam neque iste sit recusandae aspernatur!


Callbacks

There are two ways to bind to callbacks in your tabs.

Callback function

<script> $(document).foundation({ tab: { callback : function (tab) { console.log(tab); } } }); </script>

Toggled Event

<script> $('#myTabs').on('toggled', function (event, tab) { console.log(tab); }); </script>

Customize With Sass

Tabs can be easily customized with the Sass variables provided in the _settings.scss file.

SCSS

$tabs-navigation-padding: rem-calc(16); $tabs-navigation-bg-color: #efefef; $tabs-navigation-hover-bg-color: darken($tabs-navigation-bg-color, 5%); $tabs-navigation-active-bg-color: #fff; $tabs-navigation-font-color: #222; $tabs-navigation-font-size: rem-calc(16); $tabs-navigation-font-family: $body-font-family; $tabs-content-margin-bottom: rem-calc(24); $tabs-content-padding: $column-gutter/2; $tabs-vertical-navigation-margin-bottom: 1.25rem;

Sass Errors?

If the default "foundation" import was commented out, then make sure you import this file:

SCSS

@import "foundation/components/tabs";
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