bootstrap-tabs-x

Extended Bootstrap Tabs with ability to align tabs in multiple ways, add borders, rotated titles, load tab content via ajax including caching, and more. This plugin includes various CSS3 styling enhancements and various tweaks to the core Bootstrap 3 Tabs plugin.

NOTE: The latest version of the plugin v1.3.0 has been released. Refer the CHANGE LOG for details.

Features

The plugin offers these enhanced features:

• Supports various tab opening directions: above (default), below, right, and left.
• Allows you to box the tab content in a new bordered style. This can work with any of the tab directions above.
• Allows you to align the entire tab content to the left (default), center, or right of the parent container/page.
• Automatically align & format heights and widths for bordered tabs for right and left positions.
• Allows a rotated sideways tab header orientation for the right and left tab directions.
• Auto detect overflowing header labels for sideways orientation (with ellipsis styling) and display full label as a title on hover.
• Ability to load tab content via ajax call.
• With release v1.3.0, you can use this like an enhanced jQuery plugin using the function $fn.tabsX on the .tabs-x parent element.

Demo

View the plugin documentation and plugin demos at Krajee JQuery plugins.

Pre-requisites

1. Bootstrap 3.x (Requires bootstrap tabs.js)
2. Latest JQuery
3. Most browsers supporting CSS3 & JQuery.

Installation

Using Bower

You can use the bower package manager to install. Run:

bower install bootstrap-tabs-x

Using Composer

You can use the composer package manager to install. Either run:

$ php composer.phar require kartik-v/bootstrap-tabs-x "dev-master"

or add:

"kartik-v/bootstrap-tabs-x": "dev-master"

to your composer.json file

Manual Install

You can also manually install the plugin easily to your project. Just download the source ZIP or TAR ball and extract the plugin assets (css and js folders) into your project.

Usage

Load Client Assets

You must first load the following assets in your header.

<link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="path/to/css/bootstrap-tabs-x.min.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="path/to/js/bootstrap-tabs-x.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

If you noticed, you need to load the bootstrap.min.css, jquery.min.js, and bootstrap.min.js in addition to the bootstrap-tabs-x.min.css and bootstrap-tabs-x.min.js for the plugin to work with default settings.

Note: The plugin extends the bootstrap tabs plugin and hence the bootstrap.min.js must be loaded before bootstrap-tabs-x.min.js.

Markup

You just need to setup the markup for the extended bootstrap tabs to work now. Refer documentation for details.

<legend>Tabs Above Centered (Bordered)</legend>
<!-- tabs -->
<div class="tabs-x align-center tabs-above tab-bordered">
    <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
        <li class="active"><a href="#one2" data-toggle="tab">One</a></li>
        <li><a href="#two2" data-toggle="tab">Two</a></li>
        <li><a href="#three2" data-toggle="tab">Three</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="tab-content">
        <div class="tab-pane active" id="one2">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, charetra varius quam sit amet
            vulputate. Quisque mauris augue, molestie tincidunt condimentum vitae, gravida a libero.
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="two2">Secondo sed ac orci quis tortor imperdiet venenatis. Duis elementum
            auctor accumsan. Aliquam in felis sit amet augue.
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="three2">Thirdamuno, ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis
            pharetra varius quam sit amet vulputate. Quisque mauris augue, molestie tincidunt condimentum vitae.
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Via Javascript

The javascript methods and events available in the core bootstrap tabs plugin will be available here as well.

Documentation

The entire tabs behavior can be controlled through HTML markup. The various markup options available for the bootstrap-tabs-x plugin are mentioned below:

Tabs X Container

This is the most important part of setting up your extended tabs behavior. You must wrap the default bootstrap tabs markup within a div container with a tabs-x class. In addition, you can add positioning classes (e.g. tabs-above) and alignment classes (e.g. align-center ) to this container. You can also add the sideways orientation class to rotate the tab headers sideways for the tabs-right and tabs-left positions.

<!-- tabs-x container -->
<div class="tabs-x align-{center|right} tabs-{above|below|right|left} {tab-sideways} {tab-bordered} {tab-height-(xs|sm|md|lg}">
    <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
        ...
    </ul>
    <div class="tab-content">
        ...
    </div>
</div>

Ajax Tabs

With release v1.1.0, the plugin supports loading content via ajax. You can configure the following properties to each tab link, for ajax loading:

• data-url: the server url that will process the ajax response and return a json encoded html
• data-loading-class: the css class to be applied to the tab header when content is loading. Defaults to kv-tab-loading.

For example:

<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
    <li class="active"><a href="#one2" data-toggle="tab">One</a></li>
    <li><a href="#two2" data-toggle="tab" data-url="/site/loadTab.php">Two</a></li>
    <li><a href="#three2" data-toggle="tab">Three</a></li>
</ul>

Caching Ajax Tabs

The plugin by default includes a caching object to cache the content generated via Ajax. The following settings enable you to control the behavior:

• enableCache: boolean, whether to enable caching of ajax generated tab pane content. Defaults to true.
• cacheTimeout: integer, timeout in milli-seconds after which cache will be refreshed. Defaults to 300000 (i.e. 5 minutes).

Tabs X Positions (Directions)

You can set four different positions for your tabs - by adding one of the following CSS classes to your tabs container.

• tabs-above: The default tabs position - the navigation tabs will be placed above the tab content.
• tabs-below: The navigation tabs will be placed below the tab content.
• tabs-left: The navigation tabs will be placed left of the tab content.
• tabs-right: The navigation tabs will be placed right of the tab content.

Tabs X Alignment

By default the tabs are aligned/floated to the left of the parent container. In addition, you can set the following alignment options, by adding one of the following CSS classes to your tabs container.

• tab-align-center: Align the entire tabs widget to the center of your parent container.
• tab-align-right: Align the entire tabs widget to the right of your parent container.

NOTE: These alignments makes sense for working only with the tabs-above and tabs-below positions. It is recommended not to use them with the tabs-right and tabs-left positions.

Tabs X Bordered

You can add the tab-bordered class to the tabs container to make it boxed within a border. The border radius and box format will automatically be adjusted based on your tab position.

Tabs X Fixed Height Sizes

By default each of the tab pane heights are automatically calculated. When using the tab-bordered style, you may wish to set fixed heights, so the tab widget dimensions are consistent for all tabs. For this you can add one of the following fixed height classes to your tabs container:

• tab-height-xs: Maintains a fixed tab pane height to an extra small height specification of 135 px, and overflows the extra content to scrollable.
• tab-height-sm: Maintains a fixed tab pane height to a small height specification of 195 px, and overflows the extra content to scrollable.
• tab-height-sm: Maintains a fixed tab pane height to a medium height specification of 280 px, and overflows the extra content to scrollable.
• tab-height-lg: Maintains a fixed tab pane height to a large height specification of 400 px, and overflows the extra content to scrollable.

NOTE: You can add your own custom classes (names beginning with tab-height-) and the plugin will automatically format the vertical tabs borders (tabs-left and tabs-right) based on this. Note in this case your custom class must modify the tab-content height like shown below:

/* custom fixed height class */
.tab-height-500 .tab-content {
    height: 500px!important;
    overflow: auto;
}

Tabs X Sideways Orientation

For the tabs-left and tabs-right positions, you can rotate the tab header labels to show it sideways. For this you can add the tab-sideways class to your tabs container. In this case the tab header label width is fixed. Any long label text overflowing will not be wrapped and shown along with an ellipsis. The plugin will automatically set the title attribute to show the complete label on hovering the tab header.

NOTE: The sideways orientation makes sense for working only with the tabs-left and tabs-right positions. It is recommended not to use them with the tabs-above and tabs-below positions.

Tabs X Events

The bootstrap-tabs-x plugin triggers additional events in addition to the events triggered by the parent bootstrap tabs plugin. The event is triggered on each tab link containing [data-toggle=tab]. The following events are available:

tabsX.click

This event is triggered on clicking each tab.

$('div.tabs-x .nav-tabs [data-toggle="tab"]').on('tabsX.click', function (event) {
    console.log('tabsX.click event');
});

tabsX.beforeSend

This event is triggered before sending an ajax call to the server. It is applicable only for ajax tabs when you set a data-url attribute on your tab link.

$('div.tabs-x .nav-tabs [data-toggle="tab"]').on('tabsX.beforeSend', function (event) {
    console.log('tabsX.beforeSend event');
});

tabsX.success

This event is triggered after successful completion of an ajax call to the server. It is applicable only for ajax tabs when you set a data-url attribute on your tab link. The following additional parameters are available with this event:

• data: string, the output data retrieved from the server via ajax response.

$('div.tabs-x').on('tabsX.beforeSend', function (event, data) {
    console.log('tabsX.beforeSend event');
});

tabsX.error

This event is triggered after an ajax processing error. It is applicable only for ajax tabs when you set a data-url attribute on your tab link. The following additional parameters are available with this event:

• request: object, the jqXHR object.
• status: string, the error text status.
• message: string, the error exception message thrown.

$('div.tabs-x').on('tabsX.error', function (event, request, status, message) {
    console.log('tabsX.error event with message = "' + message + '"');
});

License

bootstrap-tabs-x is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. See the bundled LICENSE.md for details.