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50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts

April 14th, 2009

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Tab navigation has been one of the most fundamental element in any modern web structure. In order to make sure visitors can properly navigate through the website. One of the biggest challenge web designers and developers faced is to integrate a simple and nice tab navigation that not only don't confuse, but helps visitors easily understand where they should be clicking.

Whether you are running a website or blog, tab navigation is probably one of the element that helps drives traffic to internal pages. Here we've compiled a mass list of 50+ nice clean and sleek CSS Tab-Based navigation samples you can adapt on your site. Full list after jump.

  1. jQuery Coda-Slider

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    Nice sleek tabs that slides through each
    tab
    .

    [demo]

  2. Perspective Tabs

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    Simple
    mootools plug-in that allows for a large number of tabs to fit into a small space.

    [demo]

  3. jQuery idTabs

    2aebc20866e794773259935cdd3c593b 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    2c7afb2fef5c2f91c3daff6f17893a3e 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    It makes adding tabs into a website super
    simple
    . But it can also open the door to endless possiblities.

    [demo]

  4. Tab Accordian

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    Tab

    navigation
    with sleek animation using Moo FX.

    [demo]

  5. DHTML Goodies Tab Panes

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    Tab

    navigation
    with a close [x] button on each
    tab
    .

    [demo]

  6. AJAX Tabs (Rails redux)

    c24ae43df892fa3d2def587024efafb5 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Using Ajax to load information that does not need to be retrieved every time the user pulls the record.

    [demo]

  7. Ajax Project – Tabbed Page Interface

    7e696cc2b56e9bc11e7b5d6be60d28d9 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    There are quite a few Javascript implementations of tabbed interfaces out there on the web. How much better, though, to be able to change from pagetab to pagetab without a page refresh? Here's an example of a tabbed interface using
    Ajax
    to load the new pages.

    [demo]

  8. JQuery Nested Tab Set

    b61abeeb96f055c0978973e5c982e866 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Nested
    tab
    set done with the
    ExtJS UI Library.

    [demo]

  9. Ajax Tab Reloaded

    069cfc30fcac7e25f37e6725f483b946 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Taken the idea of the sliding door tabs and mixed them up with a little
    javascript
    and
    ajax
    to make them very dynamic on the client side.

    [demo]

  10. 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus

    c8954c496da91e88be090ce135ead4e4 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Free nicely designed tabs from explodingboy.

    [demo]

  11. Control.Tabs

    583171e8ab11a22b356216d3d8cc99d3 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Control.Tabs attaches creates a tabbed
    interface
    from an unordered list of links/anchors that point to any elements on your page that have an id attribute.

    [demo]

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  12. JavaScript tabs with jQuery

    1b9f497f92319dd74fdb70859cbdf984 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    jQuery plugin that lets you create
    JavaScript
    tabs very easily. Examples of
    simple
    tabs, custom tabs, slide effects, fade effects and callbacks demos available.

    [demo]

  13. Yahoo TabView

    1caca96b72b26a9ce71498a1d58f7ea7 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Sample tabs based on Yahoo UI Library.

    [demo]

  14. DHTML Ajax Tabs Content Script

    95fb8159a1749ad3cecc58cb87468d24 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    f720d0c47c92768d2ea9e71b5a7cbb88 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    c89fb5f283e41be045b3eb45a3c0c8c0 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    This is a versatile
    Ajax
    Tabs Content script that lets you display content pulled from external files inside a DIV and organized via
    CSS tabs. A fully unobtrusive,
    CSS
    and HTML based script, it supports practical features such as persistence of the active tab (ie: when page is reloaded), an “IFRAME” mode, a “slideshow” mode, ability to expand/contract arbitrary DIVs on the page at the same time, nested tabs, and much more.

    [demo]

  15. JavaScript Tabifier

    5c03f7bfc7bf9c301726db5aa051bb79 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Automatically create an HTML
    tab

    interface
    using plug-and-play

    JavaScript
    .

    [demo]

  16. Tabtastic

    This library is a
    simple
    way to implement tabs on your page using

    CSS
    , a little JS, and semantic markup which degrades gracefully on browsers with
    CSS
    unavailable or disabled.

    [demo]

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  17. KollerMedia Tabmenu

    b768c0b5cf4ac2f1e37d5dffe03c5000 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Tabs for images as icon, changes when mouseover.

    [demo]

  18. dhtmlxTabber

    4140cdd90c5c33846a6d073093803486 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    dhtmlxTabbar is a
    JavaScript
    tabbar control for creating dynamic tabbed-navigation
    interface
    . This Ajax-enabled UI component lets you add feature-rich and nice looking tabs to your site or web application.

    [demo]

  19. Centered Tabs with CSS

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    We're constrained to either left- or right-hand
    navigation
    . But what if we need a bit more flexibility? What if we need to place our
    navigation
    in the center?

    [demo]

  20. CSS Tab Designer

    5610783158edd3efd9ad20b04fce5d29 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [Windows only]
    CSS

    Tab
    Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required!

    [demo]

  21. Light Weight Low Tech CSS Tabs

    6bf0a413ef10d8bea8bc3f67126c2d17 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    An example of light weight tabs by combining the Sliding Doors method with the Mountaintop corners idea.

    [demo 1, 2]

  22. Module Tabs – Carousel

    c514a9a7deaaa8a5c76f2f0983b33111 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Example of showing one page of content at at time in tabs. Each
    tab
    link scrolls to the page selected. Since all animation is turned off (animationSpeed = 0) then it just moves the desired content into view.

    [demo]

  23. Joshua Kaufman's CSS Tab 2.0

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    Build
    CSS
    tabs without using any images or hacks and with as little
    CSS
    as possible.

    [demo]

  24. Tabbed Navigation using CSS

    How to create low-bandwidth
    tab

    navigation
    on a web page using
    CSS
    .

    [demo]

    26827926a14cdf0b7014e510c27d56ab 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

  25. Duoh's 2nd Level Tab Menu

    f39ca5c44dfe4acf601914b9ae33f475 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  26. Nundroo CSS Navigation

    cc71f0d88ae4fb23db2685de3a2ac3d8 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  27. CSS Menu With Slider

    f1de01014333ec2e93fee99605fedb64 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    This little example shows how to make really
    simple
    and yet very nice

    CSS
    Menu with slider.

    [demo]

  28. CSS drop down menu

    08c51ab0734f1fe1c7f6b840ef4a10b7 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Instead of the menu being triggered by placing your mouse of the menu label, it is trigger by moving your cursor over the down arrow on the right side of the menu label.

    [demo]

  29. Fancy Menu

    fe712fddd44f11e94f3861dca8d7499b 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Custom
    navigation
    bar with some cute
    Javascript
    effects that will certainly impress your friends.

    [demo]

  30. Creative Pony Sliding Tab

    4a0ef3efbdc3a59190457d79aeb73998 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Sliding Tabs is a mootools 1.11 plugin which adds a pretty neat effect. It's a clone of something seen on Panic Software's Coda site.

    [demo]

  31. JQuery Tab Animation

    9745c404ea07dc074b2c6e8f318510ba 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    A sample that show how you can add
    tab
    transition animations to your existing
    Tab
    Panel Controls.

    [demo]

  32. Fancy Sliding Tab Menu

    e24bf684b18d8ab338b0051b78ff2629 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Included an idle state listener to bring all the tabs back to their normal state after a desired amount of time without mouse movement on the window.

    [demo]

  33. Sliding Door of CSS

    5084142c92188e1eeaa3befae7488622 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Now that
    CSS
    is widely supported, we can crank up the quality and appearance of the tabs on our sites.

    [demo]

  34. Aplus ADxMenu

    1cba98d6f0e4e27b27c01d0b3073a85d 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    4 most basic examples of
    tab
    submenus.

    [demo 1, 2, 3, 4]

  35. Bulletproof Slants

    fb2ab6db64db95622209edcc440409ac 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  36. Core Design Magic Tabs

    d797f43b9eefe2c89f3d4cab81f1f354 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Nice
    tab
    plugin for Joomla.

    [demo]

  37. Brainjar Tabs

    02a34c21358e8f3d8f693c26ec0a1646 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Using
    CSS
    to build a tabbed display. One where the user can click on individual tabs to view different content within the same space.

    [demo]

  38. qrayg CSS Menu

    396edd529789683f46f1c93ee5f91969 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    4 level deep list in both horizontal and vertical layout modes while maintaining hover persistence.

    [demo]

  39. Kalsey CSS Menu

    a1eaa24980f5ce85df2ce7871dd945fa 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  40. Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers

    3906eff0da4989121e105674e35f6bb8 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  41. HTML Dog CSS Tab

    d78aa58baea68f76139804b3e7a444c0 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    A popular form of
    navigation
    is tabbed navigation-a group of links that give the impression of being protrusions attached to different areas of unseen content. With
    CSS
    you don't need to be restricted to rigid images for every tab-you can maintain complete control over appearance and text at a fraction of the file size of image-only alternatives.

    [demo]

  42. CSS Tabs Menu with Dropdowns

    744c09b7af1e2f0ad7d31384563c12b5 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    Create dropdowns when the top level menu item is hovered over.

    [demo]

  43. DOMTab

    0e8563b3c1cb2cab65c3782583c2b555 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    DOMtab is a
    JavaScript
    that turns a list of links connected to content sections into a
    tab

    interface
    . The script removes any “back to top” links in the section and automatically hides all but the first one when the page is loaded.

    [demo]

  44. Animated horizontal tabs

    6978b06486904d6c1951651085a8ec4d 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    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
    .

    [demo]

  45. Inverted Shift Down Menu

    249707a6578ee070f73df9b63a128082 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    This clean
    CSS
    horizontal menu contains tabs with text that shift downwards slightly when the mouse rolls over it.

    [demo]

  46. Inverted Shift Down Menu II

    25fe7b5f6a87cb27104e3d780a2f50a6 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  47. Vista Aero Buttons Menu

    77fde20dea8b9052fc18d8f310fcb4d4 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    This menu consists of a row of independent, Vista aero looking
    CSS
    buttons, and departs from the typical list based menu
    structure. Each button appears initially faded out slightly via
    CSS
    opacity, then brought back to full opacity during the “hover” state.

    [demo]

  48. DD Tab Menus

    0d3bdb0d5ec034bab618d6afaf717a90 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    DD
    Tab
    Menu is a standards compliant, 2 level
    tab
    menu. Move your mouse over a
    tab
    , and a 2nd level content appears beneath it. The script uses

    CSS
    to control all of its appearance, and plain HTML to implement the entire menu tabs and contents.

    [demo]

  49. EasyCFM DHTML Tab

    602f92957ea3c26d79c56ed5db713e52 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  50. Flexible Tab Navigation

    a76687fe41929d1a2e2af035f3ca3f48 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    The
    navigation
    bar shown here is achieved via 3 images, a bit of
    CSS
    and some

    JavaScript
    .

    [demo]

  51. jQuery UI/Tabs

    240516562aacfb4ad1d40c6d48410201 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    [demo]

  52. jQuery Thickbox

    878992e6a73f2be4c9d69eec33e5b306 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab Based Navigation Scripts

    ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in
    JavaScript
    on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through
    AJAX
    in a hybrid modal.

    [demo]

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