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How to Build a Tabs Component with React

Updated on August 25, 2020
👁 How to Build a Tabs Component with React

Introduction

If you’ve ever built a web app, there’s a good chance you’ve built a tabbed document interface at one point or another. Tabs allow you to break up complex interfaces into manageable subsections that a user can quickly switch between. Tabs are a common UI component and are important to understand how to implement.

In this article, you will learn how to create a reusable tab container component that you can use by itself or with your existing components.

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Thank you joshtronic, this is a great articles and sample of code!

One question about tab.js ‘Anonymous Object’ (sorry I don’t know how to name it)

from tabs.js

render() {
 const {
 onClickTabItem,
 props: {
 children,
 },
 state: {
 activeTab,
 }
 } = this;
...

Assigning this to an javascript object without name? It is new to me and want to know more about it. Thank you very much!

hi joshtronic, thank you for this tutorial!

Question, what if the data that I will be displaying in tabs are from my API. How can I filter and dynamically pull the data?

I’m new to React.

If you have any kind of esLint running it’s going to complain that this is not keyboard accessible. It will be best make them tab-able and selectable for users without a mouse if you’re going to put them out on the open web

Is it possible to set a specific tab as active rather than default to the first one listed?

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