Tabs: Horizontal scrolling

[klaus.hartl]

If number of tabs exceed the available space, buttons should be provided to scroll through the tabs. The tabs shouldn't wrap.

See Firefox for example.

Design is required as well.

[klaus.hartl]

Another example: ​http://cakephp.org/

[yanndinendal]

I strongly agree with this. There should be a way to do this! I tried with jCarousel (​http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/), but it doesn't work well with tabs: it is made to scroll with items having a fixed width, like images' thumbnails. So it is quite buggy with the variable-length text we have in tabs headers.

[Jörn Zaefferer]

Duplicate of #4628

[sneed424]

another good example for a previous version of jquery ​http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui-tabs-paging/

Example: ​http://www.seyfertdesign.com/jquery/examples.html

[Rob Loach]

Replying to sneed424:

another good example for a previous version of jquery ​http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui-tabs-paging/

Example: ​http://www.seyfertdesign.com/jquery/examples.html

This is REALLY nice.

[aamirafridi]

I just finish working on ​http://jquery.aamirafridi.com/jst/

Replying to klaus.hartl:

Another example: ​http://cakephp.org/

[aamirafridi]

For now I have created a plugin for this:

​http://jquery.aamirafridi.com/jst/

[Corey Frang]

Replying to aamirafridi:

For now I have created a plugin for this:

​http://jquery.aamirafridi.com/jst/

I like the result of this work - Perhaps there is a way we could get some of these features baked into the real tabs API?

[Scott González]

This should be built as an extension. It's bad UX to have so many tabs that you need to scroll.

[john.allred]

Currently when the tabs are wider than the viewport (either because there are too many tabs, or the viewport is too small, or the user has made their browser window smaller) the jquery ui tabs wrap in a very unprofessional manner. While researching this issue I have come across many requests that the ui tabs be made scrollable (which also seems to me to be the logical thing to do), but since you don't want to do that can you at least fix the CSS so when the tabs wrap to multiple lines they don't look like the site was built by a 5th grader?