Tabbed content This is an example of how to create a javascript tabbed content box using menus created via CSS Menu Builder. You can get the code by copy/pasting the code from the next couple of tabs here. Please note that this example uses MooTools as the javascript framework.
CSS

<style type="text/css"> /* Example styles used for this demo */ #tabContainer{ position:relative; width:400px; } #tabMenu{ position:relative; height:30px; } #tabContent{ position:relative; height:266px; font:12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#444444; border:4px solid #9fb2d6; overflow:auto; } #tabContent .content{ display:none; } #tabContent .active{ padding:5px 10px; display:block; } /* Tab menu styles generated via the horitontal menu builder @ www.cssmenubuilder.com */ .menu{margin:0 auto; padding:0; height:30px; width:100%; display:block; background:url('topMenuImages.png') repeat-x;} .menu li{padding:0; margin:0; list-style:none; display:inline;} .menu li a{float:left; padding-left:15px; display:block; color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration:none; font:12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; cursor:pointer; background:url('topMenuImages.png') 0px -30px no-repeat;} .menu li a span{line-height:30px; float:left; display:block; padding-right:15px; background:url('topMenuImages.png') 100% -30px no-repeat;} .menu li a:hover{background-position:0px -60px; color:rgb(255,255,255);} .menu li a:hover span{background-position:100% -60px;} .menu li a.active, .menu li a.active:hover{line-height:30px; font:12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background:url('topMenuImages.png') 0px -90px no-repeat; color:rgb(82,82,82);} .menu li a.active span, .menu li a.active:hover span{background:url('topMenuImages.png') 100% -90px no-repeat;} </style>

HTML

<div id="tabContainer"> <div id="tabContent"> <div id="css" class="content active"> <strong>CSS</strong> </div> <div id="html" class="content"> <strong>HTML</strong> </div> <div id="js" class="content"> <strong>Javascript</strong> </div> <div id="mootools" class="content"> <strong>Mootools</strong> <p> <a href="http://www.mootools.net" target="_blank">Get MooTools here</a> </p> </div> </div> <div id="tabMenu"> <ul class="menu"> <li><a href="#css" class="active"><span>CSS</span></a></li> <li><a href="#html"><span>HTML</span></a></li> <li><a href="#js"><span>Javascript</span></a></li> <li><a href="#mootools"><span>Get Mootools</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

Javascript

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.11/mootools-yui-compressed.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> window.addEvent('domready', function() { initTabs(); }); function initTabs() { $ES('a','tabMenu').each(function(el) { el.addEvent('click',function(e) { var ev = new Event(e).stop(); tabState(el); }); }); } function tabState(ael) { $ES('a','tabMenu').each(function(el) { if(el.hasClass('active')) { el.removeClass('active'); } }); ael.addClass('active'); $$('#tabContent div.content').each(function(el) { if(el.hasClass('active')) { el.removeClass('active'); } }); var acu = ael.getProperty('href'); var ac = acu.replace(/#/, ''); $(ac).addClass('active'); } </script>

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