5 amazing javascript tabbed interfaces for your web applications

Posted by ThinkFlick

December 15, 2008

Tabbed interfaces are one of most demanding web interfaces these days. Everyone loves to make more things in less space. Tabs panels do the job for you. Sometimes you have to split a collection of text material and rotate them though simple tabs while sometimes you use tabs in your main navigation to switch between different pages of your website.

Here is a list of 5 best tabbed scripts written in different javascript libraries.

DOM Tabs - Light and simple

Dom tabs are written in pure CSS and tabs are switched by the help of native javascript code called dom tabs. This is ultra light weight CSS tabbed interface. View a Demo & Download it.
Accessible unobtrusive CSS tabs with jQuery

jQuery is one of most popular javascript library. It is very easy to do complexing javascripting with the help of jQuery. Here is an example of it that is a simple but powerfull css based tabbed interface built with the help of jQuery.
Control Tabs: CSS based tabs

Simple, clean interface and powerfull navigation options. You can use it as normal tabs or you can also use image thumbnails as tabs while mouse overing on images can display the larger version of image. Means a simple image gallery. Simpley round corner CSS tabs. Is’nt it great? View a demo yourself.
Native javascript based ajax tabs panel

Dynamic drive launched this simple ajax based tabbed interface. It can switch text content simply or you can get text or html material from external source by ajax. View a demo
Yahoo UI Tabs

CSS tabs built using Yahoo UI, javascript library. Very clean and simple to navigate. Checkout a demo