JavaScript tabifier
Damn, was I beaten to the punch?
A while back I was working on an automated tabifier using JavaScript, then this popped up today in the popular page in deli.icio.us: Link
I shouldn’t post unfinished code, but damn it, I think mine is better! 
My tabs are completely CSS controlled, they look great without JavaScript and the page always prints (I think a lot of DHTML developers do not take into effect that a page will be printed).
Anyway, check it out here: JavaScript tabifier
If you like it please contact me - with enough encouragement I might continue this project.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I’ve been looking for and trying out many tab scripts, but yours is making it at the top of my short list at the moment.
Ok, first, a disclaimer: I’m a Javascript ignoramus. All I can do is download scripts, figure out how the darn thing is supposed to work, monkey here, monkey there and voila! I don’t know how it works, but hey, it works.
One thing still buggers me with your tabifier: I would like to find a way to get rid of the tooltip that gets displayed when the user mouses over each tab’s container - while keeping a full title, instead of numbers for the tabs.
Any idea?
Also, how hard would it be to implement tab selection persistence?
In any case, congrats and thanks for a very cool (and easy on idiots like me) piece of work!
March 15th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
“get rid of the tooltip”
I’m hoping to add an option that lets you specify an element within the tag from which the title can be obtained, instead of requiring a title attribute. That would solve your problem.
“how hard would it be to implement tab selection persistence”
It’s on my todo list (using a cookie).
Stay tuned to my blog and the tabber forum for updates.
March 15th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Excellent, that would be great!
Looking forward to all that!
December 13th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
in the ajax demo you need another javascript file can you tell me where it is its not in the downloads section