I found a CSS file while I was searching for how to create tabs without using images. I came across CSS Tabs 2.0
which serves my purpose.
However, now I need to customize it to fit my asp.net page, and I can’t seem to be able to get anywhere.
The CSS file uses a <ul and an <li
I am using a Table with <tr> and <td>
This is the sample code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>CSS Tabs | unraveled</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<!-- CSS Tabs is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ -->
<style type="text/css">
/* begin css tabs */
ul#tabnav { /* general settings */
text-align: left; /* set to left, right or center */
margin: 1em 0 1em 0; /* set margins as desired */
font: bold 11px verdana, arial, sans-serif; /* set font as desired */
border-bottom: 1px solid #6c6; /* set border COLOR as desired */
list-style-type: none;
padding: 3px 10px 3px 10px; /* THIRD number must change with respect to padding-top (X) below */
}
ul#tabnav li { /* do not change */
display: inline;
}
body#tab1 li.tab1, body#tab2 li.tab2, body#tab3 li.tab3, body#tab4 li.tab4 { /* settings for selected tab */
border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; /* set border color to page background color */
background-color: #fff; /* set background color to match above border color */
}
body#tab1 li.tab1 a, body#tab2 li.tab2 a, body#tab3 li.tab3 a, body#tab4 li.tab4 a { /* settings for selected tab link */
background-color: #fff; /* set selected tab background color as desired */
color: #000; /* set selected tab link color as desired */
position: relative;
top: 1px;
padding-top: 4px; /* must change with respect to padding (X) above and below */
}
ul#tabnav li a { /* settings for all tab links */
padding: 3px 4px; /* set padding (tab size) as desired; FIRST number must change with respect to padding-top (X) above */
border: 1px solid #6c6; /* set border COLOR as desired; usually matches border color specified in #tabnav */
background-color: #cfc; /* set unselected tab background color as desired */
color: #666; /* set unselected tab link color as desired */
margin-right: 0px; /* set additional spacing between tabs as desired */
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: none;
}
ul#tabnav a:hover { /* settings for hover effect */
background: #fff; /* set desired hover color */
}
/* end css tabs */
</style>
</head>
<body id="tab1">
<p><a href="/publications/css_tabs/">← Introduction</a></p>
<h1>CSS Tabs 2.0</h1>
<ul id="tabnav">
<li class="tab1"><a href="index.html">Tab One</a></li>
<li class="tab2"><a href="index2.html">Tab Two</a></li>
<li class="tab3"><a href="index3.html">Tab Three</a></li>
<li class="tab4"><a href="index4.html">Tab Four</a></li>
</ul>
<p>CSS Tabs is licensed under <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0</a>.</p>
<p>Joshua Kaufman, <a href="/">unraveled</a><br />
28 January, 2007</p>
<a href="css_tabs_v1.html">Looking for CSS Tabs 1.0?</a>
</body>
</html>
This is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
/* begin css tabs */
ul#tabnav { /* general settings */
text-align: left; /* set to left, right or center */
margin: 1em 0 1em 0; /* set margins as desired */
font: bold 11px verdana, arial, sans-serif; /* set font as desired */
border-bottom: 1px solid #6c6; /* set border COLOR as desired */
list-style-type: none;
padding: 3px 10px 3px 10px; /* THIRD number must change with respect to padding-top (X) below */
}
ul#tabnav li { /* do not change */
display: inline;
}
body#tab1 li.tab1, body#tab2 li.tab2, body#tab3 li.tab3, body#tab4 li.tab4 { /* settings for selected tab */
border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; /* set border color to page background color */
background-color: #cc6666; /* set background color to match above border color */
}
body#tab1 li.tab1 a, body#tab2 li.tab2 a, body#tab3 li.tab3 a, body#tab4 li.tab4 a { /* settings for selected tab link */
background-color: #fff; /* set selected tab background color as desired */
color: #000; /* set selected tab link color as desired */
position: relative;
top: 1px;
padding-top: 4px; /* must change with respect to padding (X) above and below */
}
ul#tabnav li a { /* settings for all tab links */
padding: 3px 4px; /* set padding (tab size) as desired; FIRST number must change with respect to padding-top (X) above */
border: 1px solid #6c6; /* set border COLOR as desired; usually matches border color specified in #tabnav */
background-color: #ffffff; /* set unselected tab background color as desired */
color: #666; /* set unselected tab link color as desired */
margin-right: 0px; /* set additional spacing between tabs as desired */
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: none;
}
ul#tabnav a:hover { /* settings for hover effect */
background: #cc6600; /* set desired hover color */
}
/* end css tabs */
</style>
</head>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ID="Table1">
<tr>
<td width="15"></td>
<td valign="bottom">
<%--Generate Home Tab--%>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" ID="Table0">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><div align="center" class="tab1"><a href="index.aspx">Home</a></div></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="3"></td>
<td>
<%--Generate CRM Tab--%>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ID="Table1">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><div align="center" id="Contact"><a href="Contact.aspx" class="Tab2" id="tabnav" title="Contact">Contact</a></div></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I would appreciate anyones help to make the tabs work in my code.
If you use the jQuery UI Tabs, the work is already done for you:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/