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5 Tips For Building Tabs In Javascript

March 23, 2021 1242 Views

Ext JS is the Best Javascript Framework for developers who want to create web apps for any modern device. It comes with 140+ fully supported components that integrate seamlessly with React and Angular. It includes a customizable tab control that allows you to easily add powerful tabs to your Javascript application. It supports a variety of advanced features, such as overflow scroller tabs, icons on tabs, and bottom tabs.

In this post, you’ll learn about the 5 tips for building tabs in Javascript using Ext Js. Let’s go!

#1. How do I implement basic tabs in Ext JS?

Tabs on a component enable handy user engaging means of displaying multiple related content, one iteration of a view at a time.

#2. How do I implement advanced features in tabs?

There are options for anchoring the collection of tabs along any position on the perimeter of the component container, and likewise within the collection of tabs, the option of rotating the tab itself within its container.

Check out this video tip on our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCCn3FqdMwY

#3. How do I implement the overflow scroller tabs?

The Tab Panel component provides the means for managing tabs in such a way where “back” and “next” buttons can allow access to tabs not readily visible within the current display, called the overflow.

#4. How do I implement icons on tabs in Ext JS?

Text is the most common way to signal information in a tab header, but other options, called icons, exist as well, which can be just as engaging if not more so in initiating action in an application.

#5. How do I implement positioning bottom tabs in Ext JS?

Tabs on a component can be configured to be docked along any position on the component’s perimeter.

ExtJS has Everything you need to Create Stunning Web Applications

Ext JS includes amazing UI components, such as HTML5 calendar, grids, pivot grid, D3 adapter, trees, lists, forms, menus, toolbars, panels, windows, and much more. Hundreds of user extensions are also available from the Sencha community.

Find out more about Ext JS and all of the amazing HTML5 components it offers.

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