Back in April 3rd, 2009, I wrote a small script to create tabs with jQuery. Many readers liked its simplicity and asked for some more features, like the ability to automatically rotate between each tab and those were into the second incarnation of the tabs. Many more asked through the comments or by email about the posibility to include multiple instances of the rotating tabs and that’s what this release is about. Read more
Some time ago I wrote an article about creating some tabs using jQuery, the Javascript library. One of the readers asked if I could devise a way to “add a code that will automatically and continuosly go to the next tab even without clicking on the tabs?”. Well, here it is. In addition to the rotating tabs, we also need to take care of the behaviour when the user actually clicks on a tab by stopping the cycling behaviour on the desired tab. Finally, we will also highlight the selected tab both in the cycling mode and when the user clicks on a tab. Read more
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. Read more