Tabs help create amazing amazing user interfaces. Web space can be used efficiently and effectively with tabs. So here is an ultimate collection of over 25 jQuery tabbing plugins to help designers create excellent user interfaces.
Creating tabbed content is easy with jQuery UI. Using a simple HTML layout and calling the tabs function is all it takes. Here, I will show you how to make a degradable tabbed interface. That is, we will make it so the page is still readable when JavaScript is disabled. This involves hiding and showing elements using JavaScript before enabling tabs.
Learn how to create a tabbed content window using CSS and jQuery.
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Creating tabs is as simple as setting up some simple HTML and enabling it with a line of JavaScript code. Here is a bare bones example.
tabSwitch is a tab/slider plugin for jQuery. You could make a tab box system with the least of code and still fully customizable. Currently, you could choose from 7 different effects with 2 view styles. You could also hot swap the effects around in runtime. 
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