Tab (GUI)

On computers using graphics for an interface, a tab is a way to switch between different controls (such as in a configuration screen), or documents (such as in a web browser or word processor). Only one tab can be active at a time.

An example of tabs in gedit

Use in browsers

More recently tabs have become a popular feature of most web browsers. This allows you to have more than one website open in the same window.

An example of Mozilla Firefox (version 2) with three tabs open.

Related pages

Tabbed Document Interface

Other websites

Navigation Archived 2009-07-01 at the Wayback Machine and Module Archived 2009-07-01 at the Wayback Machine tabs at the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.
Yahoo! UI Library Archived 2009-07-06 at the Wayback Machine TabView
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
Scriptaculous AJAX tabs Archived 2008-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

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