I have found many examples of scripts that save the selected tab inside a cookie but none of them worked out of the box? so let me write here a note and a snippet about how I got it working.
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 saw this little widget being used on a couple of sites lately, and decided to try building one myself. Turned out to be pretty simple using jQuery and some css foo.
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.
Tabbed areas are lovely, but when you start getting to more than 3 or 4 different tabs, they start to get a little crowded. I think it makes sense to supply universally located Next/Previous buttons, so without even moving your cursor you can click through each of them.
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