Animated Tabs Content Using jQuery and CSS

Introduction

This article will show you how to create your own tabbed content step by step. Tabs are used to improve the utilization of space and to provide some stylish effects in a website. jQuery tabs are very popular and create some fancy look for web pages.

Description

Tabs are generally used to break content into multiple sections that can be swapped to save space, much like an accordion. By default a tab widget will swap between tabbed sections onClick but the events can be changed to onHover through an option. For my new looks I created a container which has the ability to switch content through tabs, but with an animation.

Step 1: First we have to create a Web Application.

• Go to Visual Studio 2010.
• New--> And select the Web Application.
• Give whatever name you want to.
• Click OK.

Step 2: Secondly you have to add a new page to the website.

• Go to the Solution Explorer.
• Right-click on the project name.
• Select add new item.
• Add new web page and give it a name.
• Click OK.
  

Step 3 : In this step we are adding one image to the "Image" folder of the project.

Step 4 : In this step add the tabbedContent.css file to your Styles folder.

Right-click on the sagscroller.css file->copy and paste to the <Head> section of your page. The reference path looks like:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Styles/tabbedContent.css" />

Step 5: In this step we will see how to add style sheet code. Whenever we write style sheet code you have to be careful that it is written inside the <style></style> tags and you have to place it inside the head section.

<style type="text/css">
.tabbed_content
{
background-color: #663366;
width: 620px;
}
.tabs
{
height: 62px;
position: relative;
}
.tabs .moving_bg
{
background-color: #FF9933;
background-image: url(../images/arrow_down_green.gif);
background-position: bottom left;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
left: 0;
padding: 15px;
padding-bottom: 29px;
position: absolute;
width: 125px;
z-index: 190;
}
.tabs .tab_item
{
display: block;
float: left;
padding: 15px;
width: 125px;
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
z-index: 200;
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
}
.tabbed_content .slide_content
{
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #9999CC;
padding: 20px 0 20px 20px;
position: relative;
width: 600px;
top: 0px;
left: -1px;
}
.tabslider
{
width: 5000px;
}
.tabslider ul
{
float: left;
width: 579px;
padding: 0px;
margin-right: 40px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
.tabslider ul a
{
color: #330000;
text-decoration: none;
}
.tabslider ul a:hover
{
color: #CC9933;
}
.tabslider ul li
{
padding-bottom: 7px;
}
</style>

Step 6: In this step we write the script reference to the aspx page; let us see from where you have to write the script code.

Right-click on both files respectively -> copy and paste it inside <Head> section of your page; see step 7.

Step 7: Let us see the script code which you have to add inside the <script></script> tags and that will be placed either in <head> section or the <body> section as you prefer.

<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/jquery.js"></script>

Step 8: In this step you will see the body code of the Default2.aspx page which is given below.

<body>
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<div class='tabbed_content'>
<div class='tabs'>
<div class='moving_bg'>

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