Tabs...

[Paintbait]

I'm trying to make a webpage wherein the content on the page will have little 'tabs' on the the top of the content element. So instead of say scrolling all the way through the page or having to open another link I would to be able to click one of these 'tabs' and view another portion of whatever needs viewing.

Err, hmm, I should try to explain i better.

It would look like this

"|Summary|Etc|Etc|Etc|Etc|"
"Summary Test..."

and upon clicking over to "Etc" the 'tabs' will remain and I will be viewing whatever is there for 'etc'.

Maybe someone has had to do something like this before, or would know where I could find some direction to do this. I'm not necessarily looking for a 'code handout' but perhaps some direction that could be helpful in teaching me what goes into all that.

Thanks.

[rspassey]

It's AJAX and DHTML: http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.ht...cript=tab_view

- Link was given to me by Statica for a similiar post in the past.

[Paintbait]

It looks good. I'll see if I can use this, thanks.

If anyone else knows of another way don't be shy! But this does look quite efficient, Ryan. I might try using the standard horizontal menu, but instead of putting a list put the content, but I like that. AJAX is my new best friend.

Thanks again.

[martson]

Those tabs look good. I had something similar in my site once. They rely on JavaScript being enabled to work though. I used the 'NoScript' extension at the time and by default, it stopped my menus from showing. It occured to me that many other Firefox users install NoScript too. They'd also have to enable JavaScript in order to see the menus. Would everyone do that? Maybe people wouldn't bother, or perhaps the site would not be trusted enough to allow JavaScript. If that were the case, even a title saying: 'Please enable JavaScript to view the menus' wouldn't work. In the end I went back to plain HTML links. Maybe they don't look so polished but they'll always be visible to visitors who have their browser locked down for security reasons.

[rspassey]

Remember that if you are wanting to host advertisements on your site, the more STATIC pages (use of html links to other pages) tends to be more profitable as your ads often load more times and are changing more, drawing more attention to them. More static pages to link to also helps with SEO.