10 Best Tabs Systems In JavaScript And/Or Pure CSS (2023 Update)

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What Is Tabs (Tabbed Content)

Tabs (tabbed content) is a UI component which organizes and displays multiple content sections in a single container with a tab navigation.

Your users are allowed to switch between these content sections by clicking o the tabs.

The Best Tabs Components

In this blog post you will find the 10 best jQuery, JavaScript, and Pure CSS based fully responsive tabs components for both desktop and mobile design. I hope you like it.

Originally Published Nov 13 2017, updated Jan 03 2023

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jQuery Tabs Plugins:

Accordion Like Content Tabs Plugin with jQuery - Easy Responsive Tabs

A simple jQuery plugin for quickly creating content Tabs which allow you organize larger groups of content into a tab interface. It will automatically turn the content Tabs into a content accordion for mobile devices. You can change the media query break point through CSS to set the accordion, when screen resolution changed.

Accordion Like Content Tabs Plugin with jQuery - Easy Responsive Tabs

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Add Next/Prev Buttons To Bootstrap 4 Tabs - Tab Carousel

A tiny jQuery plugin for creating responsive grid or tab layouts which allow the user to expand / hide web content by clicking on their corresponding grid/tab items.

Add Next/Prev Buttons To Bootstrap 4 Tabs - Tab Carousel

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Lightweight jQuery Tabs Plugin With Animation and Rotation - Tabslet

A lightweight (~2kb minified) jQuery plugin that allows you to create tabbed content with support for animation effect, tabs rotation and trigger events.

Lightweight jQuery Tabs Plugin With Animation and Rotation - Tabslet

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Easy & Animated jQuery Tabbed Content Plugin - Tabulous

A simple and clean jQuery plugin that enables you to organize DIV contents into an animated tab interface with awesome CSS3 animations.

Easy & Animated jQuery Tabbed Content Plugin - Tabulous

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Flat Animated Tabs Plugin For jQuery - PWS Tabs

A lightweight jQuery tabs plugin to create flat style tabbed content panels with some cool transition effects powered by CSS3 animations.

Flat Animated Tabs Plugin For jQuery - PWS Tabs

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Vanilla JS Tabs Libraries:

Simple & Mobile-first Toggle Tabs – Tabby.js

A simple, lightweight JavaScript library for creating accessible, mobile-first toggle tabs with minimal effort.

Simple & Mobile-first Toggle Tabs – Tabby.js

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Accessible Tabs Component – tab-container

An easy, accessible tabs compont written in Vanilla JavaScript.

Accessible Tabs Component – tab-container

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Pure CSS Tabs Components:

Creating A Stylish Tabs Control Using Pure CSS / CSS3

A pretty cool, animated tabs component / widget / control with subtle fade transition effects. Made using CSS and CSS3 transitions.

Creating A Stylish Tabs Control Using Pure CSS / CSS3

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CSS Only Responsive Tab View Using Flexbox Model

A pure CSS responsive tab view that will be automatically converted into a vertical accordion when the screen size is smaller than a breakpoint specified in the CSS3 media queries. Heavily based on CSS3 flex box model.

CSS Only Responsive Tab View Using Flexbox Model

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Pure CSS Tabbed Interface with 3D Cube Flip Animation

A pure CSS implementation of a cool tabs component with a fancy 3D cube flip animation based on CSS3 3D transforms.

Pure CSS Tabbed Interface with 3D Cube Flip Animation

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More Resources:

Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Tabs Components on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Tabs and JavaScript/CSS Tabs sections.

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