SEE DEMO HERE

Step one : xHtml markup

I decided to use the most basic structure. 2 wrappers next to each other, one containing the actual tabs, the other the relative content to each tab. Both elements(tabs and content) receive the ‘active’ class when their are in fact active.

<ul id="tabz">
<li class="tab active">Tab1</li>
<li class="tab ">Tab2</li>
<li class="tab ">Tab3</li>
</ul>
<div id="tabz_cont">
<div class="cont active">Content 1</div>
<div class="cont">Content 2</div>
<div class="cont">
<h1>some other content</h1>
Content 1

</div>
</div>

Step two : Css

I used a grid system (http://960.gs) to position and give widths to all the elements, beside that, I used some css3 techniques to beatify my tabs (rounded corners and shadow).
The actual css you use, isn’t important to the work of the tabz.

Step three : JAVASCRIPT

This is the reason why you are reading this, right? here you go:

//Tabz code - apply event to the tabs elements and your done
$('#tabz li').live('click',function(){
_index = $(this).parent().children().index($(this));
$(this).addClass('active').siblings().removeClass('active');
$('.cont').removeClass('active').eq(_index).addClass('active');
});

I select the tabs and assign them a click event listener, with the live() function.

Then I create an _index variable, that will tel me the index of the tab inside it’s parent.

By this _index I can now show the relevant content in the content div(the tabs and their content have to be the same index in their respective containers)

That’s it. Hope you can use this. If you do, don’t forget to comment here and show me your work.

I’s a consept website, in flash, I created some time ago and didn’t finish.

It has a couple if nifty things to play with (draggable birds, media buttons in form of floating balloons,a very unique panoramic background)

And I decided to port this whole thing into JS with MooTools and it’s FX.Scroll function.

So in the next couple of days I will be posting the results here and the code also.

Cheerz

Ok so i’m working on this site at work, and our creative designers decided it should have a news ticker in Javascipt. A fade-in/out kind of thing.

I used Mootools (of course) to write a simple script for this. And then I noticed something very strange. While in transition, both in Firefox and IE (6 and 7) the text got Garbled and rendered strangely.

Problem :

I then noticed this deal on another websites :

getstisfaction.com

Preview :

I tried to recreate this , and I made it happen only in IE for some reason.

FIX :

All that needs to be done, is to add background color to the absolute positioned elements that get faded in and out…

like so :

.fade_div{
position:absolute;
background-color:#fff;
}