Tabs enable ease of navigation. jQuery lets you create a tabbed interface with ease. Learn how to create simple tabs and even play with jQuery to create complex and attractive tabs with these wonderful jQuery plugins and Tutorials.

1. Tabs - jQuery plugin for accessible, unobtrusive tabs

A simple and easy to use plugin for creating Tabs in jQuery.

2. jQuery Tabs API

Tabs are generally used to break content into multiple sections that can be swapped to save space, much like an accordion. By default a tab widget will swap between tabbed sections onClick, but the events can be changed to onHover through an option. Tab content can be loaded via Ajax by setting an href on a tab.

3. jQuery Tabs

Tabbing has been common place on the Internet for some time now. Today web sites will make use of tabbing without the page having to reload with the addition of JavaScript. 

4. jQuery Tabs made easy

The other day I needed to create a block (or widget) with tabs, so I started checking different jQuery based tab solutions but they were all very large for what I needed. Most of the jQuery based tabs I found had a lot of functionalities to fulfill everything you need, but they end up being quite large, bloated and complex. I wrote this small jQuery dependant code to create my own tabs widget and thought you could find it useful.

5. How To Create Tabs Using jQuery

Tabbed sidebar elements are in. Why bother making users scroll down the page, when they can simply click a tab to quickly access various parts of your site? Another popular thing is  jQuery, “The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.” I’ve gotten a lot of emails asking how I created tabs with jQuery in the last couple of days — since I released the Visionary theme. It’s actually not all that hard (I’m not a JavaScript programmer), and I’m going to run you through a tutorial.

This tutorial is primarily based off WordPress, but can easily be ported anywhere else.

6. jQuery Tabs

A fellow named Klaus has created a nifty little plugin that creates accessible unobtrusive javascript tabs using jQuery. With the correct (x)HTML and CSS you can create tabs as easily as

$.tabs("container"); // first tab on by default

If you want to have the second tab “on” by default:

$.tabs("container", 2); // second tab on

Klaus has an example that you can view to see the end result.
My Contribution - I had to do something to add to Klaus’ contribution so I came up with a simple form that you can use to generate the markup for the tabs.

7. Simple JQuery Tabs Template

A simple jquery tabs as template that addresses few issues with javascript tabs.

8. jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial

Tabbed Interface or Tabbed Structure Menu is getting really famous in web design & development. This tutorial will show you how to build your own tabbed Interface using jQuery with slideDown/slideUp effect. Be sure to check out the demo, you definetely will like it.

9. JQuery Tab Container

The JQuery Tab Container is an extension that can add tab container to your markup language so you can accommodate more information in one page in user friendly way.

10.  Lazy Loading jQuery Tabs with ASP.NET

This article looks at efficient use of jQuery tabs when displaying data. Specifically, it covers how to lazy-load data, so that it is only accessed and displayed if the tab is clicked. Lazy Loading is a well-known design pattern that is intended to prevent redundant processing within your application. In the case of tabbed data, there seems little point retrieving and binding data that appears in a tabbed area that no one looks at. So, this examples covers how to defer data access and display until the user wants it - which is defined by them clicking the relevant tab.

I'm going to use the same Web Service as was introduced in one of my previous jQuery articles, but I have added a new method to it which simply returns a collection of Cars that meet the Make criteria passed into the method argument.

11. jQuery Tab View using AJAX and WCF REST Service

In response to a question on StackOverflow Master Details using jQuery Tabs I wrote little sample app to demonstrate using jQuery Tabs and a WCF REST Service to create a Master Details view of Orders. I decided I’d also reference the solution here and give a little bit of an overview of how the Sample works.

12. Simple jQuery tabs

This tutorial looks into creating a really simple tabbed interface using just plain HTML and CSS with the functionality and interface manipulated using jQuery. Tabbed interfaces are great for maximizing the amount of space you have on your site.

Lets take a look at whats going on. We start with the document ready function. The first line of code hides all the tab containers, we then show the first one, and add the class ‘active’ to the first ‘li’ in the tab headers. Then whenever a tab is clicked it simply remove the class ‘active’ from all the tabs, then add it to the tab thats been clicked. We then take the href from the clicked tab and show it. Simple as that! You can get the complete file by grabbing the download and the demos at the bottom also.