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Hey I just began working on a new project that requires, tab navigation, and within each page, more tab navigation, and then within those pages dynamic ASP.NET content. The problem is I do not want all of my code on one page, that would just be a very large and bloated page. I was wondering what available methods of approach there are for this issue. I checked jQuery tabs, and I see I can link html files using AJAX but I need aspx files not just HTML.
Thanks ahead of time.
I’ve had to deal with this on many projects. After trying quite a few libraries my approach to tabs is to always do these myself using plain CSS.
But note having multiple layers of tabs is a but usability no-no. Remember Windows 3.x and 95 did this quite a bit. It’s less an issue these days. You can try an accordion control along with the tabs to filter your screens
One one particular project, we used DevExpress ASPxTabPages for a while. These worked well, but were a bit heavy for such a simple task. We then moved the project to JQuery, but ran into situations where JQuery UI Tabs started to be an issue as well. Particularly when generating tabs using master pages and render actions in ASP.Net MVC. We finally settled on regular CSS and HTML. Javascript really isn’t even needed. Though I’m sure JQuery can be used to spruce things up.
An example of CSS tabs can be found at http://www.htmldog.com/articles/tabs/. There are live examples on that page as well.