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Animated horizontal tabs

Author: Dynamic Drive

These sliding doors based blue tinted tabs "jump up" when selected, such as when the mouse rolls over each one. This is accomplished using a combination of relative positioning and padding on each tab. The selected tab is first stretched vertically by giving it a thick bottom padding, then plucked out thanks to the CSS "top" property value that's smaller than the normal tabs'. The result are tabs that animate without any scripting.

BTW, the amount the selected tab jump up can be easily adjusted- refer to the comments inside the CSS.

Demo:

The two images used:

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">
    
.animatedtabs{
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
font-size: 14px; /*font of menu text*/
}


.animatedtabs ul{
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
margin-left: 10px; /*offset of first tab relative to page left edge*/
padding: 0;
}

.animatedtabs li{
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

.animatedtabs a{
float: left;
position: relative;
top: 5px; /* 1) Number of pixels to protrude up for selected tab. Should equal (3) MINUS (2) below */
background: url(media/tab-blue-left.gif) no-repeat left top;
margin: 0;
margin-right: 3px; /*Spacing between each tab*/
padding: 0 0 0 9px;
text-decoration: none;

}

.animatedtabs a span{
float: left;
position: relative;
display: block;
background: url(media/tab-blue-right.gif) no-repeat right top;
padding: 5px 14px 3px 5px; /* 2) Padding within each tab. The 3rd value, or 3px, should equal (1) MINUS (3) */
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
}

/* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
.animatedtabs a span {float:none;}
/* End IE5-Mac hack */


.animatedtabs .selected a{
background-position: 0 -125px;
top: 0;
}

.animatedtabs .selected a span{
background-position: 100% -125px;
color: black;
padding-bottom: 8px; /* 3) Bottom padding of selected tab. Should equal (1) PLUS (2) above */
top: 0;
}

.animatedtabs a:hover{
background-position: 0% -125px;
top: 0;
}

.animatedtabs a:hover span{
background-position: 100% -125px;
padding-bottom: 8px; /* 3) Bottom padding of selected tab. Should equal (1) PLUS (2) above */
top: 0;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<div class="animatedtabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com" title="Home"><span>Home</span></a></li>
<li class="selected"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/" title="CSS Examples"><span>CSS</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/new.htm" title="New"><span>New</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/revised.htm" title="Revised"><span>Revised</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com" title="Tools"><span>Tools</span></a></li>	
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/" title="DHTML Forums"><span>Forums</span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 04/12/2008

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

Your Comments (35)

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Comment Pages 4 of 4 pages « First < 2 3 4

hello how can i change the tab from top to bottom ,so when i make mouseover the tab must came from the top to the bottom

Posted by hups on 11/28, 04:56 AM

The concept is very nice, and its looking good, i like the button style

Posted by manikandan S on 11/28, 07:16 AM

if you have the above div (animatedtabs) inside a wrapper div with a certain width (say 600px), how would you get the tabs to be centered inside the wrapper div?

Posted by Vince on 11/30, 01:05 PM

I know someone earlier said to add a margin: auto and then to manually set the width with which the buttons will take up. This is not a very good fix, as then if the user increases the size of the font in their browser, the buttons enlarge and then take up two lines since the width is hard coded and does not expand to accommodate the change in text size.

Posted by Vince on 11/30, 03:08 PM

thansk you it is very useful script. Cheer. thanks

Posted by angkorboy on 11/30, 08:26 PM

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