Really really similar to a lot of the other menus...

Yeah, the code for this one is basically the Sliding Doors technique. Still, I thought it was worthy of featuring, especially with the alternate style the tab images bring.

Sliding Doors without any hover effect... useless...

~Would be at least better with a current page attribute.

"Sliding Doors without any hover effect... useless..."

Only "useless" if you want tab color to change. This is a perfect example of a simple, elegant menu where you can set just the link color to change.

It's also great b/c there's no fixed width to the tabs - you can have as much text in there as you want. I don't think Sliding Doors can do that, unless you went through a bunch of extra work and wrote a bunch of extra code.

"It's also great b/c there's no fixed width to the tabs - you can have as much text in there as you want. I don't think Sliding Doors can do that, unless you went through a bunch of extra work and wrote a bunch of extra code."

Sliding Doors can have any text (even dinamically asigned), because was designed for it.

This is great; providing best-practice knowledge and resources to the general masses. Bitchin'. Big plus! Some comments posted, sound like they are coming from anal-retentive Web folk (like me) - loosen up and give this site credit for what it's trying to do, and that is in trying to help the overall, best practice Cause for the Web.

How do you get this in the middle of the page?

Is it just me or are there simpler ways to do this?

Hi,
I tried this plastic horizontal tab menus, it worked fine for me but i was wondering how can we make certain buttons like (administrator button) invisible from users.

I am waiting for urgent reply

Thanks
Kiran