JSF 1.2 Tab Component

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A Tab Tab icon component is part of a Tab Set component. You can add a new tab to a tab set in two ways, by right-clicking the Tab Set component or a Tab component and choosing Add Tab or by dragging a new Tab component from the Woodstock Layout category of the Palette and dropping it on the Tab Set or on another Tab component. You can also drag from the Palette and drop the tab on the tab set's nodes in the

By default, a Tab component has a Layout Panel below it where you can drop components that will be displayed when the user selects the tab. The Layout Panel by default has its panelLayout property set to Grid Layout, meaning that components dropped on the panel are aligned at the location where they are dropped. You can change the layout behavior by setting the panelLayout property to Flow Layout, which aligns dropped components left to right in rows. For more information on Layout Panel properties, see Layout Panel Component Properties Window.

To select a tab in a tab set, either click the Tab component on the page or select the Tab component's node in the   To select the whole tab set, either click the border of the Tab Set component on the page or select the tab set's node in the Navigator window. Alternatively, you can select a Tab component and either press Escape or right-click and choose Select Parent to select its parent component.

You can drag tabs in the Navigator window to change their location and level in the tab set.

Some typical uses of tabs:

You can also right-click the Tab component and choose a number of options, including the following:

See Also
Tab Component Properties Window
Layout Panel Component Properties Window
Binding Component Properties
Working With Components
Component Tasks: Quick Reference
About the Visual Web Palette

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