Tab (GUI)
user interface component that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window
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.
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Use in browsers
changeMore 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.
Related pages
changeOther websites
change- 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