Tabs organise and allow navigation between groups of content that are related and at the same level of hierarchy.
To select the active tab add the attribute aria-selected="true" and that list item will have the correct styling.
To horizontally align the tab list with other content, the whole tab set can be contained within a .row element to provide correct gutters.
There are two contexts in which this pattern can be used: as navigation, and as controls for panes of content.
The tabs pattern can be used as an alternative way to display a list of links.
When you need to group a number of related blocks of content within an area on the page, the tabs pattern can be used, and will require JavaScript to handle interaction with each tab, and the toggling of their associated content panes.
Tabs use Vanilla's light theme by default. There are two ways to switch between the light and the dark themes:
To change the default, go to _settings_themes.scss and set $theme-default-p-tabs to dark.
To override the default, add a state to p-tabs: is-dark when the default tabs theme is light, or is-light when the default has been changed to dark:
To import just the standard tab component into your project, copy the snippet below and include it in your main Sass file.
// import Vanilla and include base mixins
// this only needs to happen once in a given project
@import 'vanilla-framework';
@include vf-base;
@include vf-p-tabs;
For more information see Customising Vanilla in your projects, which includes overrides and importing instructions.
You can use tabs in React by installing our react-component library and importing Tab component.