5 Best LightWeight & Simple jQuery Tabs Tutorials

January 2, 2011

1. Simple Tabs w/ CSS & jQuery

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Use an unordered list for your tabs, and follow up with the “tab_container” container right below it. Make note that each list item (tabs) has an attribute of “href” that matches the ID of the “.tab_content” div. This will be very important once we have jQuery pull off the actions.

2. Create Flipping Content Tabs Using jQuery

Content Tabs have become more popular lately with more and more websites and blogs using them to show more content in lesser space. Today I am going to show you how to create content tabs with nice flipping effect. For this, you will need the QuickFlip jQuery Plugin by Jon Raasch and of course, the latest version of the incredible jQuery library.

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3. jQuery Sliding Tab Menu for Sidebar Tutorial

This tutorial, we will be making a jQuery Sliding Tab Menu for sidebar. Previously, I made a tutorial about jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu, if you have not read it yet, check it out. I’m using it for my sidebar at the moment. The differences between both tab menus are, the sliding direction and this time, we are using a little bit different HTML structure and massive change in jQuery script.

We will be using a famous plugin called jQuery.scrollTo. jQuery scrollTo is an amazing plugin and doing sliding menu has never been so easy! Please continue reading, As usual, this tutorial is separated into 3 sections: HTML, CSS and Javascript. View Demo | Download The Files

4. JQuery Tabs Tutorial

In this demo we’ll be creating a simple tabbed interface using html and css and utilising the power of JQuery to control the appearance of the content. The mechanics of this tutorial are to have a tabbed interface that when a link is clicked displays the corresponding information in the content area below. The interface will degrade gracefully if the user has javascript disabled. View Demo

5. How to create Tabs with CSS and jQuery from scratch

Another feature that is often added to Web 2.0 sites is tabbed content. I’m not talking about tabbed navigation. Tabbed content is when different chunks of HTML are shown depending on what tab is clicked.