How to create tabs containing different content in HTML ?

Last Updated : 24 Aug, 2023

Tabs are used to navigate and display different content around the website. We use tabs to manage space and to make the website more attractive. In this article, we will make tabs to navigate different content.

Here is the preview image:

Preview image

Approach:

In the body tag create some tabs under the div tag with a Custom-Data-Attribute that holds the id of the content.
Create another div tag to store the content of the tab with a specific id.
Specify data attributes for each content tag to display only one tab of the content at a time.
Using JavaScript we can display the content of the tag using its id.

In this article, we have created three tabs Tab-1, Tab-2, and Tab-3. When we click on any specific tab it will display the content of that tab.

Note: For CSS, refer to the ,code under the style tag and for JavaScript refer to the code under the script tag.

Example: In this example, we will create tabs containing different content.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 
<head>
    <style>
/*This code is styling the HTML elements in the document. Here is a breakdown of
  what each part of the code does:*/
       <style>
        * {
            margin: 0;
            padding: 0;
        }
 
        body {
            background: white;
        }
 
        .container {
            border: 1px solid grey;
            margin: 1rem;
        }
 
        [data-tab-info] {
            display: none;
        }
 
        .active[data-tab-info] {
            display: block;
        }
 
        .tab-content {
            margin-top: 1rem;
            padding-left: 1rem;
            font-size: 20px;
            font-family: sans-serif;
            font-weight: bold;
            color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
        }
 
        .tabs {
            border-bottom: 1px solid grey;
            background-color: rgb(16, 153, 9);
            font-size: 25px;
            color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
            display: flex;
            margin: 0;
        }
 
        .tabs span {
            background: rgb(16, 153, 9);
            padding: 10px;
            border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);
        }
 
        .tabs span:hover {
            background: rgb(55, 219, 46);
            cursor: pointer;
            color: black;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
   
    <!-- Body Container -->
    <div class="container">
       
        <!-- Tabs Detail -->
        <div class="tabs">
            <span data-tab-value="#tab_1">Tab 1</span>
            <span data-tab-value="#tab_2">Tab 2</span>
            <span data-tab-value="#tab_3">Tab 3</span>
        </div>
 
        <!-- Tab content -->
        <div class="tab-content">
            <div class="tabs__tab active" id="tab_1" data-tab-info>
                <p>Welcome to GeeksforGeek.</p>
 
            </div>
            <div class="tabs__tab" id="tab_2" data-tab-info>
                <p>Hello Everyone.</p>
 
            </div>
            <div class="tabs__tab" id="tab_3" data-tab-info>
                <p>Learn cool stuff.</p>
 
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
       
        // function to get each tab details
        const tabs = document.querySelectorAll('[data-tab-value]')
        const tabInfos = document.querySelectorAll('[data-tab-info]')
 
        tabs.forEach(tab => {
            tab.addEventListener('click', () => {
                const target = document
                    .querySelector(tab.dataset.tabValue);
                tabInfos.forEach(tabInfo => {
                    tabInfo.classList.remove('active')
                })
                target.classList.add('active');
            })
        })
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>