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jQuery UI Cookbook

You're reading from  jQuery UI Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162186
Pages 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Adam Boduch Adam Boduch
Profile icon Adam Boduch
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

jQuery UI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating Accordions 2. Including Autocompletes 3. Crafting Buttons 4. Developing Datepickers 5. Adding Dialogs 6. Making Menus 7. Progress Bars 8. Using Sliders 9. Using Spinners 10. Using Tabs 11. Using Tooltips 12. Widgets and More! Index

Sorting tabs using the sortable interaction


When we implement tabs in a user interface, we might briefly consider the default ordering of the tabs. Obviously, we want the most relevant tabs accessible to the user in an order that makes most sense to them. But we seldom get this right in a way that makes everyone happy. So why not let the user arrange the tabs in a way that they see fit? Let's see if we can recruit the sortable interaction widget for some help by providing this capability in the tabs widget.

How to do it...

We'll use the following as the sample HTML driving our tabs instance:

<div id="tabs">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="#tab1">Tab 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#tab2">Tab 2</a></li>
        <li><a href="#tab3">Tab 3</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div id="tab1">
        <p>Tab 1 content...</p>
    </div>
    <div id="tab2">
        <p>Tab 2 content...</p...
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