backbone-tab

backbone-tab

Tab class extends Backbone.js's View object that forms a tab navigation UI.

Demo

• demo

Usage

HTML example

Required elements are tab navigation link list, whole contents wrapper (ex: <div class="contents"/>) and each contents with wrapper (ex: <div class="section"/>). Navigation link element must link to each contents ID.

<div id="tabsection">
<div class="nav">
<ul>
<li class="tab1"><a href="#section1" class="tabstyle">Section 1</a></li>
<li class="tab2"><a href="#section2" class="tabstyle">Section 2</a></li>
<li class="tab3"><a href="#section3" class="tabstyle">Section 3</a></li>
</ul>
<!--/.nav--></div>

<div class="contents">
	<div class="section" id="section1">
		<!-- some contents -->
	<!--/#section1--></div>
	<div class="section" id="section2">
		<!-- some contents -->
	<!--/#section2--></div>
	<div class="section" id="section3">
		<!-- some contents -->
	<!--/#section3--></div>
<!--/.contents--></div>
<!--/.tabsection--></div>

JavaScript example

Create instance from $.Tab constructor.

var tab = new $.Tab({
  el: '#tabsection .nav a',
  effect: false
});

And you can override "show" method of instance.

Options

option name	default value	note
onClassName	"on"	Class name that will be added to the activated tab.
defaultIndex	0	Number represents index of content to show when the page is loaded.
effect	true	Boolean represents contents switching has a fade effect or not.

CSS example

.tabsection {
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 40px 0;
  width: 600px;
}
.nav {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1;
}
.nav ul {
  margin: 0;
}
.nav ul:after {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  clear: both;
}
.nav li {
  float: left;
  width: 140px;
  margin-bottom: -1px;
  list-style-type: none;
}
.nav a {
  display: block;
  border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
  border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
  border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
  background-color: #ccc;
  margin-right: 10px;
  padding: .5em 1em;
  color: #333;
  text-decoration: none;
}
.nav a.on {
  background-color: #fff;
}
.contents {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 0;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
.section {
  padding: 50px 100px;
  line-height: 1.5;
}