Feb 21

37+ Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces

Over the last few years web-developers have developed many AJAX and CSS Tab-based interfaces which became one of the most interesting techniques giving us an easy way to get information without the need to open and close multiple windows at the same time.

We’ve spent hours searching for the best Tab-based interfaces using CSS only, CSS/Ajax and tutorials which would help you create your own Ajax or CSS Tab-based interfaces.

You might be interested to take a look at the links below:

We’d like to present the results of our search:

The Autochanging Tabs

1) Easy Tabs 1.2 with autochange- You can now set the autochange mode to one of your tab menus.

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2) Rotating jQuery tabs

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3) Slideshow Tab Content Script-"- Supports "slideshow" mode, in which script automatically cycles through and selects each tab periodically until a tab is explicitly selected.

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Sliding Tabs

4) Sliding Tabs- Sliding Tabs is a mootools plugin which adds a pretty neat effect. It’s a clone of something seen on Panic Software’s Coda site, which in turn is very heavily inspired by a widget used in the iTunes Music Store.

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5) Coda-Slider- Amazing jQuery Coda-Slider can be used for Nice, slick content presentation.

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6) Perspective tabs- Formerly Sliding Tabs uses mootools that allows for a lagre number of tabs to fit into a small space.

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Ajax Tab Content

7) Ajax Tabs Content Script- This is a versatile Ajax Tabs Content script that lets you display content pulled from external files inside a DIV and organized via CSS tabs.

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Closeable Tabs

8 ) Tab Panes- Two Versions with close and add panes.

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9) Closeable Tabs Module- The Closeable Tab widget allows tabs to be removed.

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Must see Examples

10) Fabtabulous- Simple tabs using Prototype

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11) JQuery TabContainer Theme-JQuery style fade animation that runs as the user navigates between selected tabs

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12) moo.fx Tab Accordion- Tab Accordion script using moo.fx

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13) MooTabs- MooTabs is a tiny(3kb) class for MooTools. As the name suggests, it’s main purpose is to help out with the creation of simple tab navigation.

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14) TabView component- The TabView component is designed to enable developers to create navigable tabbed views of content.

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15) Fancy Sliding Tab Menu- This cool menu is developed in script.aculo.us

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16) Control.Tabs- Unobtrusive CSS tabs for Prototype.js

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17) Zapatec Ajax Tabs- This demo uses the Zapatec AJAX Transport layer to transfer the tab contents dynamically.

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Ajax Tab Generators

18) 15daysofjquery- jQuery Tabs A simple form that you can use to generate the markup for the tabs.

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Advanced Tab Techniques

19) Advanced Tabs This TabPanel is built entirely with javascript and demonstrates: Auto tab resizing, Tab scrolling, Tabs with icons, Tab plugins (context menu), Adding tabs with JS.

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20) Floating window with tabs This script is based on simple ordinary div tags. This makes it very easy to set up. Put in your HTML content and call a javascript function to initialize the window.

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21) AJAX Tabs (Rails redux) The Concept here is using Ajax to load information that does not need to be retrieved every time the user pulls the record.

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22) Ajax Tabs Reloaded User can add or remove tabs (and content) without refreshing the page.

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23) JQuery Nested Tab

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CSS Only Tabs

24) Cross browser tabbed pages with embeded links NO javascript – just CSS – and it validates. Just hover over the tabs to display a page of text with a picture and embeded links. A working scroll bar is added for each page as required.

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25) CSS Tabs The goal was to build CSS tabs without using any images or hacks and with as little CSS as possible.

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26) CSS-driven tabs

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27) CSS-driven tabs

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28) CSS Tabs- Based on Joshua Kaufman’s version

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29) Hidden Tab menu A simple hidden tab menu that opens when the tab is hovered.

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30) Inverted Sliding Doors tabs- Inverted tabs means that they are bottom-aligned, and as text size is increased, more and more of the tabs is revealed from the top down, instead of from the bottom up as in the original Sliding Doors technique.

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31) Updated Simple CSS Tabs- CSS Tabs with nested menu.

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32) CSS Tabs with Submenus- This is a way of accomplishing tabs and subnavigation using only CSS and nested unordered lists.

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33) Simplified CSS Tabs

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34) Tabs- Using CSS to build a tabbed display. One where the user can click on individual tabs to view different content within the same space.

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Ajax Tab Tutorials

35) Dynamic Ajax Tabs in 20 Lines Dynamic Ajax Tabs in only 17 lines of code thanks to the Prototype Javascript framework.

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36) Building Tabbed Content This workshop we will be building a tabbed content browser that’s Ajax powered. When ever a user clicks a tab the Ajax will communicate with the server and send back the appropriate data for that tab.

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37) CSS Tabs- A great tutorial to teach us how to create a css tabs.

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82 Responses, Add Comment +

  1. yusuf 21 February 2008

    this is one of the best links i have ever found anywhere. thanks very much.

  2. peiman 21 February 2008

    WOW! Thanks

  3. Robert 21 February 2008

    Excellent post, thank you! This will surely help a lot of people.

  4. Infect The System 21 February 2008

    This is one of the better resources I have seen lately. I definitely will be using a couple of these on my upcoming re-design of my website.

  5. Xoff 21 February 2008

    OMG, so awesome!!!!!!!!!

  6. bali web designer 22 February 2008

    amazing !, great list and thanks for sharing this, certainly will help many ppl.

  7. mumino 23 February 2008

    wow really good. I see a lot of options.. some of them, I never think….

  8. Tom 25 February 2008

    Nice collection, I really appreciate accessible examples (ex. Coda Slider), that works even with js disabled.

  9. Braintrove.com 26 February 2008

    Good collection. Thanks.

  10. Geek 4 March 2008

    wwoooww thanks a lot, there is a month that i’m searching a tab func.

    I have to use the green one. is really cool

    thnx

  11. Shane 30 March 2008

    A great ajax resource, thank u!

  12. Noupe 2 April 2008

    Thanks everyone, stay tuned for our next ajax post:)

  13. Aranea 21 April 2008

    Thank you!

  14. palPalani 25 April 2008

    awesome collections!

    thanks for for your great work!

  15. Saravanan.R 4 May 2008

    Really Cool Stuff.

  16. Deno 16 May 2008

    This are very good CSS tabs. Looks nice. Thanks

  17. SasaVtech 1 June 2008

    This is such a fantastic resource of AJAX tabbing!
    Many thanks!

  18. WOW! Thanks

  19. Imran 18 June 2008

    Just 1 word to describe this web page

    AWESOME!!!!!

  20. tvbtorrent 18 June 2008

    is there any tabs that have side tabs instead of top tabs?

    all the tabs that i found have top tabs implemented. i’m looking for a side tabs function as i need to to display quite a lot of tab window.

  21. docwho 24 June 2008

    SUPER!

    Great coda-slider!

    Thanks a lot!

  22. SD 15 July 2008

    Dude, this really is sweet! thx

  23. Chuks 18 July 2008

    This is amazingly helpful to the project I am developing

  24. M@rtijn 26 July 2008

    Thank you so much!

  25. Ivan 29 July 2008

    This one could extend the list:
    http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxTabbar/ – Ajax-enabled Tabs control for creating dynamic tabbed-navigation interface.

  26. Mohd SAkib 4 August 2008

    Its exactly what I was looking for, thanks for such a gr8 list

  27. webmaster blog 5 August 2008

    thank you very good menus.

  28. Gift Bird 5 August 2008

    I love these kind of lists. It makes it so much easier than having to scour the Internet for hours. Thanks so much for putting this together! I particularly like jQuery Nested Tab and Advanced Tabs.

  29. Raju 7 August 2008

    Nice Collection… Thank u ..

  30. Yury 8 August 2008

    thank yo for this nice collection.

    #20 Floating window with tabs what i’m looking for

  31. Knoxville Website Design 17 August 2008

    Nice collection of tab-based interfaces here. There are several here that have given me ideas for upcoming projects.

  32. Mahima 19 August 2008

    Gr8.awesome stuff

  33. harun 21 August 2008

    great work thanks a lot.

  34. hugo 24 August 2008

    Excellent post, thank you! This will surely help a lot of people.

  35. wordpressluv.com 28 August 2008

    Thanks for putting this up. Real time saver!
    Liked #33: Simplified CSS Tabs

  36. mike 2 September 2008

    Some Nice collection.Thank you so much!

  37. anjum 4 September 2008

    Thank man wonderful collection of tab menus

  38. madhu 9 September 2008

    Some Nice collection.Thank you so much!

  39. lords 9 September 2008

    nice thanks

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  41. Hindsuismnet 18 September 2008

    Great collection of tab-based interfaces here. These are super ones and will help in future projects.

  42. Honour Chick 21 September 2008

    thanks alot ;)

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