Simple User-friendly Tabs Plugin - jquery-tabs.js

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Simple User-friendly Tabs Plugin - jquery-tabs.js

A lightweight, semantic (SEO-friendly), and easy-to-config jQuery tabs plugin that provides a clean and simple of displaying multiple content blocks on a page. 

It works out of the box with HTML elements, you can use any HTML elements and structure you like.

See It In Action:

How to use it:

1. Insert jQuery library and the tabs plugin's files into the page.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery-tabs.css" />
<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery-tabs.js"></script>

2. Create the HTML for the tabs UI. The plugin works on any HTML elements, even if they are not actually tabs.

<div class="content">
  <section>
    <h3>JavaScript</h3>
    <p>JavaScript, often abbreviated JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. </p>
    <p>Over 97% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for web page behavior, often incorporating third-party libraries. </p>
  </section>
  <section>
    <h3>HTML</h3>
    <p>The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. </p>
    <p>It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets and scripting languages such as JavaScript.</p>
  </section>
  <section>
    <h3>CSS/CSS3</h3>
    <p>Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. </p>
    <p>CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript. </p>
  </section>
</div>

3. Call the function on the top container and done.

jQuery('.content').createTabs({

  // default: section
  children: 'section',

  // default: h2
  childrenTitle: 'h3',
  
});

4. Config the fadeIn & fadeOut animations. 0 = disable.

jQuery('.content').createTabs({

  // default: 500
  fade: 300
  
});

5. Add next/prev navigation buttons to the bottom of the tabs UI.

jQuery('.content').createTabs({

  // button text
  prevText: 'Prev',
  nextText: 'Next',

  // additional CSS class
  prevClass: 'btn',
  nextClass: 'btn',

});

6. Execute a function when the tab is changed.

jQuery('.content')
  .on('tab_change', function(){
    alert('TAB CHANGED!');
  })

This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by bastienho. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.