Tab (GUI) - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Gedit_tab_example.png/500px-Gedit_tab_example.png)
Use in browsers
[change | change source]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.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Firefox_2_Tabbed_Browsing_GNU-Linux.png/500px-Firefox_2_Tabbed_Browsing_GNU-Linux.png)
Related pages
[change | change source]Other websites
[change | change source]- 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