When clicking on tab A, show content for tab A. Click on tab B, show content for tab B, and so on.
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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>
If you want to implement your own tab view, just do it like this:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.tab {
display:none;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function initTabView(){
var x = document.getElementsByClassName('tab-view')
for(var i=0; i < x.length; i++) {
x[i].onclick = displayTab;
}
var prevViewedTab = null;
function displayTab(e) {
var idOfTabToDisplay = this.getAttribute("data-tab")
if(prevViewedTab) {
prevViewedTab.style.display = 'none';
}
var tabToDisplay = document.getElementById(idOfTabToDisplay);
tabToDisplay.style.display = 'block';
prevViewedTab = tabToDisplay;
}
var defaultTab = document.getElementsByClassName('default-tab')
if (defaultTab.length) {
defaultTab[0].style.display = 'block';
prevViewedTab = defaultTab[0];
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>
<a data-tab="tab1" class="tab-view">Tab 1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a data-tab="tab2" class="tab-view">Tab 2</a>
</li>
<li>
<a data-tab="tab3" class="tab-view">Tab 3</a>
</li>
<li>
<a data-tab="tab4" class="tab-view">Tab 4</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div id="tabCtrl">
<div class="tab default-tab" id="tab1">This is Tab 1</div>
<div class="tab" id="tab2">This is Tab 2</div>
<div class="tab" id="tab3">This is Tab 3</div>
<div class="tab" id="tab4">This is Tab 4</div>
</div>
<script>
initTabView();
</script>
</body>
</html>
A jsFiddle is available here.
Depending on your ambitions, it could simply be a matter of an unordered list and a number of <div>
s (tab contents). Then a simple JavaScript could - by means of getElementById()
- set the display property for all the <div>
s: none
for all except the current.
Alternatively, you could have a look at this.
Edit: Not the only one linking to the jQuery site, it seems :)