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.
File:Gedit tab example.png
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.
File:Firefox 2 Tabbed Browsing GNU-Linux.png
An example of Mozilla Firefox (version 2) with three tabs open.
Related pages
Other websites
- Navigation and Module tabs at the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.
- Yahoo! UI Library TabView
- ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
- Scriptaculous AJAX tabs
