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Tabs

Tabs organize content into multiple sections and allow users to navigate between them.

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By default, Tabs will handle automatically the active tab item based on user interaction thanks to the enable-auto-active prop set by default to true.

All tab items and submenu items must have an id attribute for the features to work properly.

Basic tabs

A basic example with three tabs.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Sizes

Set size attribute to small or medium to style tabs size. By default, tabs have size medium.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" size="small">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>
<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" size="medium">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Managing items

All the props listed below can be applied directly to the Tabs component.

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All tab item elements must have an id for the features to work properly.

enable-auto-active

Setting the enable-auto-active prop to true (default value) will automatically activate the active state of tab menu items when they are clicked or when the active-id prop value has changed.

On the other hand, setting it to false will require manual management of the active state.

<qtm-tabs enable-auto-active="false">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2" active></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

active-id

Set the active-id value to the active tab item id by default.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-2">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Disabled State

Add disabled attribute to tab to style it as disabled.

<qtm-tabs>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1" disabled></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Divider

By default, tabs has a divider. Alternatively, tabs can be used without a divider by setting divider to false.

<qtm-tab divider="false">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Layout

  • full-width attribute if you want the tabs container to take up the whole width.
  • full-height attribute if you want the tabs container to take up the whole height.

Fluid Tabs

Add full-width and fluid to Tabs if you want set equal tabs widths when the tabs wrapper takes up the whole width available.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" full-width fluid>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Alignment

Tabs alignment can be set by setting alignment attribute to left, center, right.

Left alignment

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" full-width alignment="left">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Center alignment

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" full-width alignment="center">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Right alignment

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" full-width alignment="right">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Scrollable tabs

Use scroll-horizontally to allow horizontal scrolling if needed.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" scroll-horizontally full-width>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-4" label="Item 4"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-5" label="Item 5"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-6" label="Item 6"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-7" label="Item 7"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Icons

Tab labels may be either all icons or all text.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" icon="settings"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" icon="account_circle"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" icon="face"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>
<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" icon="settings" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" icon="account_circle" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" icon="face" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Icon position

By default, the icon is positioned at the start of a tab. Other supported position is end.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" icon="settings" label="Item 1" icon-position="start"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" icon="account_circle" label="Item 2" icon-position="end"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" icon="face" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Vertical Tab

Set tab-item-direction attribute to horizontal or vertical to allow horizontal/vertical tab layout.

<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1" tab-item-direction="vertical">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1" icon="settings" label="Item 1"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2" icon="account_circle" label="Item 2"></qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3" icon="face" label="Item 3"></qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

Customization

A Tab can also take any content in their slot.

Item 1Item 2Item 3
<qtm-tabs active-id="tab-item-1">
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-1">
<qtm-icon icon="settings" />
<qtm-typography classes="text-green-500">Item 1</qtm-typography>
</qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-2">
<qtm-icon icon="account_circle" />
<qtm-typography classes="text-red-500">Item 2</qtm-typography>
</qtm-tab>
<qtm-tab id="tab-item-3">
<qtm-icon icon="face" />
<qtm-typography classes="text-primary-500">Item 3</qtm-typography>
</qtm-tab>
</qtm-tabs>

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