Tabs and Customizations

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Create a highly customized tabbed navigation with using Components

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Tabs Component

Start off by selecting Hero, press A and insert the Tabs component from under Components. Place it right after Container. Select the first Tab Pane, add the Image element to it and choose Device-iPhone11Pro.png.

Tab Container

We'll need to add a container that is positioned differently in a different 3D plane but it's impossible to add any other element in the Tabs component. We're also unable to change the structure of our tabs. So, we'll be adding another container that will have both the Tabs component and a Div Block. To do so, create a Div Block and add another Div Block in it. Add Tabs in it as well and rename the parent Div Block to Tabs Container.

Align Tabs Container

Now, select the Tabs Container and give it a Position of Absolute. Resize this container to a width of 540 and a height of 600. In Position, set the value of Top to 208. To center an element that has Absolute positioning, give the left a value of 50%. We'll also add a margin to it to center it fully. Usually, we calculate the margin by taking the width of the container and dividing it by 2 i.e. 540/2 which is -270. But in this case we'd like to have some offset so set the margin to -160.

Tabs Menu

Since, we want the Tabs Menu to float, give it a positioning of Absolute. Set the top position to 400 and left position to 80. We're gonna give it a **z-index of 5. Set the **Display to Flex and the Direction to Vertical. Now, select the first Tab Link and set the font-size to 16.

Current Class

You'll notice that a green tile named Current has been added to the Selector field. Current means selected, this refers to the part that is currently selected. It is slightly darker than the items that aren't selected. You might also notice that the properties are Orange which means they're inherited. So, whatever you apply right now will not be added to the first class but to the second class i.e. Current. Test it by renaming all the Tab Link classes to Tab Link.

Styling Tab Links

To avoid applying the styles only to the Current class, select the 2nd Tab Link and give it a height of 44. This ensures that the styles get applied to all the Links. Set color to black, background-color to transparent and border-radius to 20. Add an outline by choosing the 2nd option for Style in Border and set border-width to 2. As we only want to have border-color for selected item, set the border-color to Transparent by default.

Tab Link Background

In this step, we'll add a background to the Tab Links. Select the 2nd Tab Link and add Icon-Phone.svg as its background image. Set the image's width to Auto and Position to left-middle. Choose the 'X' option in Tile and set the left position to 30px. Now, for the 2nd Tab Link, replace the default top and bottom padding with 0. Set its width to 220 and Align it to the Center.

Selected State

To edit how the Tab Link looks when it's selected, click on the 1st Tab Link. Set the border-color to #4E5AC2, font-size to 20 and font-weight to bold. We only want to show the phone icon when the item is selected. So, go to the 2nd Tab Link and set Top position to -100%. Now, go back to the 1st Tab Link and set the Top position for the image there to 50%. Rename the Tab Links to iPhone11 Pro, iPhone 11 and Galaxy S10. Lastly, add a 4th Tab Link by duplicating the 3rd one and name it Pixel 3.

*Note: An issue might occur when you set the background to transparent. To resolve this, set the background to white first and then to transparent.

Blue Box

In this step, we'll style the Div Block that will serve as the floating Blue Box. Select the Div Block in the Tabs Container and set its width to 140 and height to 240. Give it a Position of Absolute. Set the top position to 380 and left position to 135.

Styling Blue Box

Give it a background-color of #0091FF and a border-radius of 40. Add a box shadow, set the Angle to 180, Distance to 30, Blur to 30, color to #0091FF and A in color to 25%. Rename the Div Block to Tabs Menu Container, place it above Tabs and give it a z-index of 4. To center the Tab Links, select the 2nd Tab Link and give it a padding-right of 0. Set the font-color to white. Lastly, we'll add images to all the links we've. Go to Tabs Content and add the respective images for every Tab Pane, just like we did for the first one.

Conclusion

We hope you're having fun learning Webflow with us. In this section, we learned about tabs, class priorities, z-index, selection and the current style as well as drop shadow. In the next one, we'll learn about transitions and state so we can add some animations. See you then!

Steps

Component Tabs

Select Hero

Create Tabs

Tab Panes

Insert image Device-iPhonePro.png

Tabs Container

Name "Tabs Container"

Position Absolute

Reorder Layer to first

W540, H600

Top 208, Left 50%, Margin Left -160

Tabs Menu

Width 220px

Flex Vertical

Position Absolute

Top 400, Left 80

z-index 5

Tab Link

Select second Tab Link

Font 16px, height 44px, black, align center

Padding left 30px, Right 0, Top 0, Bottom 0

Background transparent, Icon-Phone.svg, Width Auto, Left 30px, Top -100%, Don't tile

Border Radius 20px, Solid, Width 2px, transparent

iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, Galaxy S10, Pixel 3

Images

Current

Font 20px, Bold

Border Color #4e5ac2

Background image Top 50%

Tabs Menu Container

140 x 240px

Position Absolute

Top 380, Left 135

Background #0091ff

Radius 40px

Z-index 4

Outer shadow: 180deg, 30px, 30px, #0091ff, 25%

Tab Link font white

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