jQuery Smart Tab v4

The flexible jQuery tab control plugin

Smart Tab is a flexible and heavily customizable tab control plugin for jQuery.

If you think it is cool, you should also check it's sibling React Smart Tab

• Homepage
• Documentation
• Demos
• StackOverflow Q&A
• GitHub Issues

Demos

• Basic Example
• Ajax Contents
• Multiple Tabs
• Vertical Tab Layout
• Bootstrap Modal Example

Screenshots

Requirements

• jQuery (supports jQuery 1.11.1+ to jQuery 3.6+ and jQuery Slim versions)

Installation

NPM

npm install jquery-smarttab

Yarn

yarn add jquery-smarttab

CDN - jsDelivr

<!-- CSS -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jquery-smarttab@4/dist/css/smart_tab_all.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<!-- JavaScript -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jquery-smarttab@4/dist/js/jquery.smartTab.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

CDN - UNPKG

<!-- CSS -->
<link href="https://unpkg.com/jquery-smarttab@4/dist/css/smart_tab_all.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<!-- JavaScript -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/jquery-smarttab@4/dist/js/jquery.smartTab.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Common JS/Webpack

var $ = require("jquery");
require( "jquery-smarttab/dist/css/smart_tab_all.css");
const smartTab = require("jquery-smarttab");

$(function() {
    $('#smarttab').smartTab();
});

ES6/Babel

import $ from "jquery";
import "jquery-smarttab/dist/css/smart_tab_all.css";
import smartTab from 'jquery-smarttab';

$(function() {
    $('#smarttab').smartTab();
});

Note: you may have to install the required dependencies

npm i jquery
npm i jquery-smarttab

// If you are using Webpack, install
npm i webpack webpack-cli style-loader css-loader --save-dev

Download

Download from GitHub

Features

• Easy to implement and minimal HTML required
• Supports all modern browsers
• Responsive CSS design
• Bootstrap compatible
• Cool themes included and can be easly customize
• Easy color cusomization using CSS variables
• Built-in transition animations (none|fade|slideHorizontal|slideVertical|slideSwing|css)
• Transition animations can be added easly by extending
• CSS Animations support for transition animations (Supports Animate.css)
• Accessible controls
• External controls support
• Easy ajax content integration
• Keyboard navigation
• Auto content height adjustment
• Buit-in loader
• Buit-in events
• UMD (Universal Module Definition) support
• Compatible with all jQuery versions (jQuery 1.11.1+, jQuery 3.6+, and jQuery Slim)
• URL navigation and tab selection
• Auto Progress (automatic navigation of tabs)

Usage

Include jQuery SmartTab CSS

<link href="../dist/css/smart_tab_all.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Include HTML

<div id="smarttab">

    <ul class="nav">
        <li>
          <a class="nav-link" href="#tab-1">
            Tab 1
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a class="nav-link" href="#tab-2">
            Tab 2
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a class="nav-link" href="#tab-3">
            Tab 3
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a class="nav-link" href="#tab-4">
            Tab 4
          </a>
        </li>
    </ul>

    <div class="tab-content">
        <div id="tab-1" class="tab-pane" role="tabpanel">
            Tab content
        </div>
        <div id="tab-2" class="tab-pane" role="tabpanel">
            Tab content
        </div>
        <div id="tab-3" class="tab-pane" role="tabpanel">
            Tab content
        </div>
        <div id="tab-4" class="tab-pane" role="tabpanel">
            Tab content
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Include jQuery (ignore this if you have already included on the page).

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>

Include jQuery SmartTab JavaScript

<script type="text/javascript" src="../dist/js/jquery.smartTab.min.js"></script>

Initialize the jQuery SmartTab

$(function() {
    // SmartTab initialize
    $('#smarttab').smartTab();
});

That's it!

Please see the documentation for more details on implementation and usage.

All options

// SmartTab initialize
$('#smarttab').smartTab({
    selected: 0, // Initial selected tab, 0 = first tab
    theme: 'basic', // theme, related css need to include for other than default theme
    justified: true, // Nav menu justification. true/false
    autoAdjustHeight: true, // Automatically adjust content height
    backButtonSupport: true, // Enable the back button support
    enableUrlHash: true, // Enable selection of the step based on url hash
    transition: {
        animation: 'none', // Animation effect on navigation, none|fade|slideHorizontal|slideVertical|slideSwing|css(Animation CSS class also need to specify)
        speed: '400', // Animation speed. Not used if animation is 'css'
        easing: '', // Animation easing. Not supported without a jQuery easing plugin. Not used if animation is 'css'
        prefixCss: '', // Only used if animation is 'css'. Animation CSS prefix
        fwdShowCss: '', // Only used if animation is 'css'. Step show Animation CSS on forward direction
        fwdHideCss: '', // Only used if animation is 'css'. Step hide Animation CSS on forward direction
        bckShowCss: '', // Only used if animation is 'css'. Step show Animation CSS on backward direction
        bckHideCss: '', // Only used if animation is 'css'. Step hide Animation CSS on backward direction
    },
    autoProgress: { // Auto navigate tabs on interval
        enabled: false, // Enable/Disable Auto navigation
        interval: 3500, // Auto navigate Interval (used only if "autoProgress" is enabled)
        stopOnFocus: true, // Stop auto navigation on focus and resume on outfocus
    },
    keyboard: {
        keyNavigation: true, // Enable/Disable keyboard navigation(left and right keys are used if enabled)
        keyLeft: [37, 38], // Left key code
        keyRight: [39, 40], // Right key code
        keyHome: [36], // Home key code
        keyEnd: [35] // End key code
    },
    style: { // CSS Class settings
        mainCss: 'st',
        navCss: 'nav',
        navLinkCss: 'nav-link',
        contentCss: 'tab-content',
        contentPanelCss: 'tab-pane',
        themePrefixCss: 'st-theme-',
        justifiedCss: 'st-justified',
        anchorDefaultCss: 'default',
        anchorActiveCss: 'active',
        loaderCss: 'st-loading'
    },
    getContent: null
});

License

MIT License

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