# Tab control + Rails friendly

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tab-control-rails-friendly/99539>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 13, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tab-control-rails-friendly/99539 "2005-12-13T04:00:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kitesurfer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tab-control-rails-friendly/99539/1 "2005-12-13T04:00:28Z")

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Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good tab implementation js or other that is  
rails friendly ?

Thank you all

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**Author:** ![kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kitesurfer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tab-control-rails-friendly/99539/2 "2005-12-13T04:35:58Z")

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On 12/12/05, KiteSurfer KiteSurfer [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good tab implementation js or other that is  
> rails friendly ?

This one is at least worth looking at:  
[http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2004/may/updatedsimple](http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2004/may/updatedsimple)

Hopefully someone else will post something cooler.

–Wilson.

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**Author:** ![kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kitesurfer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tab-control-rails-friendly/99539/3 "2005-12-13T05:00:04Z")

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I like these

[http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/tabpane/tabpane.html](http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/tabpane/tabpane.html)

The implementation is very clean and you can modify it a lot via CSS.  
I’ve  
modified it to even show side-tabs on a java app that I contribute to.

Their other widgets are very nice as well, especially the slider.

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**Author:** ![kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kitesurfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kitesurfer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tab-control-rails-friendly/99539/4 "2005-12-13T05:48:12Z")

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On Dec 12, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Wilson B. wrote:

> –Wilson.  
> I have used these tabs to a very nice effect in rails:

> **[Sliding Doors of CSS](https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/)**
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> Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman’s sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that s…

They aren’t already packaged for rails but they just use css and a  
few images. I had not trouble making the current tab aactive based on  
the current action.

Cheers-

-Ezra Z.  
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