packages/react-aria-components/docs/Tabs.mdx
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import {Layout} from '@react-spectrum/docs'; export default Layout;
import docs from 'docs:react-aria-components'; import statelyDocs from 'docs:@react-stately/tabs'; import {PropTable, HeaderInfo, TypeLink, PageDescription, StateTable, ContextTable, ClassAPI, VersionBadge} from '@react-spectrum/docs'; import styles from '@react-spectrum/docs/src/docs.css'; import packageData from 'react-aria-components/package.json'; import Anatomy from '/packages/react-aria/docs/tabs/anatomy.svg'; import ChevronRight from '@spectrum-icons/workflow/ChevronRight'; import {Divider} from '@react-spectrum/divider'; import {Keyboard} from '@react-spectrum/text'; import {ExampleCard} from '@react-spectrum/docs/src/ExampleCard'; import {ExampleList} from '@react-spectrum/docs/src/ExampleList'; import Collections from '@react-spectrum/docs/pages/assets/component-illustrations/Collections.svg'; import Selection from '@react-spectrum/docs/pages/assets/component-illustrations/Selection.svg'; import {StarterKits} from '@react-spectrum/docs/src/StarterKits'; import tabsUtils from 'docs:@react-aria/test-utils';
<PageDescription>{docs.exports.Tabs.description}</PageDescription>
<HeaderInfo packageData={packageData} componentNames={['Tabs']} sourceData={[ {type: 'W3C', url: 'https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/tabpanel/'} ]} />
import {Tabs, TabList, Tab, TabPanel, SelectionIndicator} from 'react-aria-components';
<Tabs>
<TabList aria-label="History of Ancient Rome">
<Tab id="FoR">
<span>Founding of Rome</span>
<SelectionIndicator />
</Tab>
<Tab id="MaR">
<span>Monarchy and Republic</span>
<SelectionIndicator />
</Tab>
<Tab id="Emp">
<span>Empire</span>
<SelectionIndicator />
</Tab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="FoR">
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris.
</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="MaR">
Senatus Populusque Romanus.
</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="Emp">
Alea jacta est.
</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
@import "@react-aria/example-theme";
.react-aria-Tabs {
display: flex;
color: var(--text-color);
&[data-orientation=horizontal] {
flex-direction: column;
}
}
.react-aria-TabList {
display: flex;
&[data-orientation=horizontal] {
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border-color);
.react-aria-SelectionIndicator {
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
border-bottom: 3px solid var(--border-color);
}
}
}
.react-aria-Tab {
padding: 10px;
cursor: default;
outline: none;
position: relative;
color: var(--text-color-base);
transition: color 200ms;
--border-color: transparent;
forced-color-adjust: none;
.react-aria-SelectionIndicator {
position: absolute;
transition-property: translate, width, height;
transition-duration: 200ms;
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
transition: none;
}
}
&[data-hovered],
&[data-focused] {
color: var(--text-color-hover);
}
&[data-selected] {
--border-color: var(--highlight-background);
color: var(--text-color);
}
&[data-disabled] {
color: var(--text-color-disabled);
&[data-selected] {
--border-color: var(--text-color-disabled);
}
}
&[data-focus-visible]:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
inset: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
border: 2px solid var(--focus-ring-color);
}
}
.react-aria-TabPanel {
margin-top: 4px;
padding: 10px;
border-radius: 4px;
outline: none;
&[data-focus-visible] {
outline: 2px solid var(--focus-ring-color);
}
}
Tabs provide a list of tabs that a user can select from to switch between multiple tab panels. Tabs can be used to implement these in an accessible way.
Tabs consist of a tab list with one or more visually separated tabs. Each tab has associated content, and only the selected tab's content is shown.
Each tab can be clicked, tapped, or navigated to via arrow keys. Depending on the keyboardActivation prop, the tab can be selected by receiving keyboard focus, or it can be selected with the <Keyboard>Enter</Keyboard> key.
import {Tabs, TabList, Tab, TabPanel, SelectionIndicator} from 'react-aria-components';
<Tabs>
<TabList>
<Tab>
<SelectionIndicator />
</Tab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel />
</Tabs>
Tabs makes use of the following concepts:
<ExampleCard url="collections.html" title="Collections" description="Defining collections of items, async loading, and updating items over time."> <Collections /> </ExampleCard>
<ExampleCard url="selection.html" title="Selection" description="Interactions and data structures to represent selection."> <Selection /> </ExampleCard>
</section>To help kick-start your project, we offer starter kits that include example implementations of all React Aria components with various styling solutions. All components are fully styled, including support for dark mode, high contrast mode, and all UI states. Each starter comes with a pre-configured Storybook that you can experiment with, or use as a starting point for your own component library.
<StarterKits component="tabs" />This example wraps the Tab component to include a SelectionIndicator, which enables animating the tab selection state.
import {Tabs, TabList, Tab, TabProps, TabPanel, SelectionIndicator, composeRenderProps} from 'react-aria-components';
function MyTab(props: TabProps) {
return (
<Tab {...props}>
{composeRenderProps(props.children, children => (<>
{children}
<SelectionIndicator />
</>))}
</Tab>
);
}
<Tabs>
<TabList aria-label="History of Ancient Rome">
<MyTab id="home">Home</MyTab>
<MyTab id="search">Search</MyTab>
<MyTab id="notifications">Notifications</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="home">Home content</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="search">Search content</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="notifications">Notifications content</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
A default selected tab can be provided using the defaultSelectedKey prop, which should correspond to the id prop provided to each item.
When Tabs is used with dynamic items as described below, the key of each item is derived from the data.
See the Selection guide for more details.
<Tabs defaultSelectedKey="keyboard">
<TabList aria-label="Input settings">
<MyTab id="mouse">Mouse Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="gamepad">Gamepad Settings</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="mouse">Mouse Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="gamepad">Gamepad Settings</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
Selection can be controlled using the selectedKey prop, paired with the onSelectionChange event. The id prop from the selected tab will be passed into the callback when the tab is selected, allowing you to update state accordingly.
import type {Key} from 'react-aria-components';
function Example() {
let [timePeriod, setTimePeriod] = React.useState<Key>('triassic');
return (
<>
<p>Selected time period: {timePeriod}</p>
<Tabs selectedKey={timePeriod} onSelectionChange={setTimePeriod}>
<TabList aria-label="Mesozoic time periods">
<MyTab id="triassic">Triassic</MyTab>
<MyTab id="jurassic">Jurassic</MyTab>
<MyTab id="cretaceous">Cretaceous</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="triassic">
The Triassic ranges roughly from 252 million to 201 million years ago, preceding the Jurassic Period.
</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="jurassic">
The Jurassic ranges from 200 million years to 145 million years ago.
</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="cretaceous">
The Cretaceous is the longest period of the Mesozoic, spanning from 145 million to 66 million years ago.
</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
</>
);
}
By default, pressing the arrow keys while focus is on a Tab will switch selection to the adjacent Tab in that direction, updating the content displayed accordingly. If you would like to prevent selection change
from happening automatically you can set the keyboardActivation prop to "manual". This will prevent tab selection from changing on arrow key press, requiring a subsequent Enter or Space key press to confirm
tab selection.
<Tabs keyboardActivation="manual">
<TabList aria-label="Input settings">
<MyTab id="mouse">Mouse Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="gamepad">Gamepad Settings</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="mouse">Mouse Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="gamepad">Gamepad Settings</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
When the tab panel doesn't contain any focusable content, the entire panel is given a tabIndex=0 so that the content can be navigated to with the keyboard. When the tab panel contains focusable content, such as a textfield, then the tabIndex is omitted because the content itself can receive focus.
This example uses the same Tabs component from above. Try navigating from the tabs to the content for each panel using the keyboard.
<Tabs>
<TabList aria-label="Notes app">
<MyTab id="1">Jane Doe</MyTab>
<MyTab id="2">John Doe</MyTab>
<MyTab id="3">Joe Bloggs</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="1">
<label>Leave a note for Jane: <input type="text" /></label>
</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="2">Senatus Populusque Romanus.</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="3">Alea jacta est.</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
The above examples have shown tabs with static items. The items prop can be used when creating tabs from a dynamic collection, for example when the user can add and remove tabs, or the tabs come from an external data source. The function passed as the children of the TabList component is called for each item in the list, and returns an <Tab>. A function passed as the children of the <TypeLink links={docs.links} type={docs.exports.Collection} /> component returns a corresponding <TabPanel> for each tab.
Each item accepts an id prop, which is passed to the onSelectionChange handler to identify the selected item. Alternatively, if the item objects contain an id property, as shown in the example below, then this is used automatically and an id prop is not required. See Collection Components for more details.
import {Collection, Button} from 'react-aria-components';
function Example() {
let [tabs, setTabs] = React.useState([
{id: 1, title: 'Tab 1', content: 'Tab body 1'},
{id: 2, title: 'Tab 2', content: 'Tab body 2'},
{id: 3, title: 'Tab 3', content: 'Tab body 3'}
]);
let addTab = () => {
setTabs(tabs => [
...tabs,
{
id: tabs.length + 1,
title: `Tab ${tabs.length + 1}`,
content: `Tab body ${tabs.length + 1}`
}
]);
};
let removeTab = () => {
if (tabs.length > 1) {
setTabs(tabs => tabs.slice(0, -1));
}
};
return (
<Tabs>
<div style={{display: 'flex'}}>
<TabList aria-label="Dynamic tabs" items={tabs} style={{flex: 1}}>
{item => <MyTab>{item.title}</MyTab>}
</TabList>
<div className="button-group">
<Button onPress={addTab}>Add tab</Button>
<Button onPress={removeTab}>Remove tab</Button>
</div>
</div>
<Collection items={tabs}>
{item => <TabPanel>{item.content}</TabPanel>}
</Collection>
</Tabs>
);
}
.button-group {
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
}
By default, tabs are horizontally oriented. The orientation prop can be set to vertical to change this. This does not affect keyboard navigation. You are responsible for styling your tabs accordingly.
<Tabs orientation="vertical">
<TabList aria-label="Chat log orientation example">
<MyTab id="1">John Doe</MyTab>
<MyTab id="2">Jane Doe</MyTab>
<MyTab id="3">Joe Bloggs</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="1">There is no prior chat history with John Doe.</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="2">There is no prior chat history with Jane Doe.</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="3">There is no prior chat history with Joe Bloggs.</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
.react-aria-Tabs {
&[data-orientation=vertical] {
flex-direction: row;
}
}
.react-aria-TabList {
&[data-orientation=vertical] {
flex-direction: column;
border-inline-end: 1px solid gray;
.react-aria-SelectionIndicator {
top: 0;
right: 0;
height: 100%;
border-inline-end: 3px solid var(--border-color, transparent);
}
}
}
All tabs can be disabled using the isDisabled prop.
<Tabs isDisabled>
<TabList aria-label="Input settings">
<MyTab id="mouse">Mouse Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="gamepad">Gamepad Settings</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="mouse">Mouse Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="gamepad">Gamepad Settings</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
.react-aria-Tab {
&[data-disabled] {
color: var(--text-color-disabled);
&[data-selected] {
--border-color: var(--border-color-disabled);
}
}
}
An individual Tab can be disabled with the isDisabled prop. Disabled tabs are not focusable, selectable, or keyboard navigable.
<Tabs>
<TabList aria-label="Input settings">
<MyTab id="mouse">Mouse Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</MyTab>
<MyTab id="gamepad" isDisabled>Gamepad Settings</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="mouse">Mouse Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="keyboard">Keyboard Settings</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="gamepad">Gamepad Settings</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
In dynamic collections, it may be more convenient to use the disabledKeys prop at the Tabs level instead of isDisabled on individual tabs. Each key in this list
corresponds with the id prop passed to the Tab component, or automatically derived from the values passed
to the items prop (see the Collections for more details). A tab is considered disabled if its id exists in disabledKeys or if it has isDisabled.
function Example() {
let tabs = [
{id: 1, title: 'Mouse settings'},
{id: 2, title: 'Keyboard settings'},
{id: 3, title: 'Gamepad settings'}
];
return (
<Tabs disabledKeys={[2]}>
<TabList aria-label="Input settings" items={tabs}>
{item => <MyTab>{item.title}</MyTab>}
</TabList>
<Collection items={tabs}>
{item => <TabPanel>{item.title}</TabPanel>}
</Collection>
</Tabs>
);
}
Tabs may be rendered as links to different routes in your application. This can be achieved by passing the href prop to the <Tab> component. By default, links perform native browser navigation. However, you'll usually want to synchronize the selected tab with the URL from your client side router. This takes two steps:
selectedKey prop to set the selected tab based on the URL, as described above.This example uses React Router to setup routes for each tab and synchronize the selection with the URL.
import {useLocation, useNavigate, BrowserRouter, Routes, Route} from 'react-router-dom';
import {RouterProvider} from 'react-aria-components';
function AppTabs() {
let {pathname} = useLocation();
return (
<Tabs selectedKey={pathname}>
<TabList aria-label="Tabs">
<MyTab id="/" href="/">Home</MyTab>
<MyTab id="/shared" href="/shared">Shared</MyTab>
<MyTab id="/deleted" href="/deleted">Deleted</MyTab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id={pathname}>
<Routes>
<Route path="/" element={<HomePage />} />
<Route path="/shared" element={<SharedPage />} />
<Route path="/deleted" element={<DeletedPage />} />
</Routes>
</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
);
}
function App() {
let navigate = useNavigate();
return (
<RouterProvider navigate={navigate}>
<Routes>
<Route path="/*" element={<AppTabs />} />
</Routes>
</RouterProvider>
);
}
<BrowserRouter>
<App />
</BrowserRouter>
.react-aria-Tab[href] {
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
React Aria components can be styled in many ways, including using CSS classes, inline styles, utility classes (e.g. Tailwind), CSS-in-JS (e.g. Styled Components), etc. By default, all components include a builtin className attribute which can be targeted using CSS selectors. These follow the react-aria-ComponentName naming convention.
.react-aria-Tabs {
/* ... */
}
A custom className can also be specified on any component. This overrides the default className provided by React Aria with your own.
<Tabs className="my-tabs">
</Tabs>
In addition, some components support multiple UI states (e.g. pressed, hovered, etc.). React Aria components expose states using data attributes, which you can target in CSS selectors. For example:
.react-aria-Tab[data-selected] {
/* ... */
}
.react-aria-Tab[data-focus-visible] {
/* ... */
}
The className and style props also accept functions which receive states for styling. This lets you dynamically determine the classes or styles to apply, which is useful when using utility CSS libraries like Tailwind.
<Tab className={({isSelected}) => isSelected ? 'bg-blue-400' : 'bg-gray-100'}>
Settings
</Tab>
Render props may also be used as children to alter what elements are rendered based on the current state. For example, you could render an extra element when an item is selected.
<Tab>
{({isSelected}) => (
<>
{isSelected && <SelectionIndicator />}
Item
</>
)}
</Tab>
The states and selectors for each component used in Tabs are documented below.
Tabs can be targeted with the .react-aria-Tabs CSS selector, or by overriding with a custom className. It supports the following states and render props:
A TabList can be targeted with the .react-aria-TabList CSS selector, or by overriding with a custom className. It supports the following states:
A Tab can be targeted with the .react-aria-Tab CSS selector, or by overriding with a custom className. It supports the following states and render props:
A TabPanel can be targeted with the .react-aria-TabPanel CSS selector, or by overriding with a custom className. It supports the following states and render props:
All React Aria Components export a corresponding context that can be used to send props to them from a parent element. This enables you to build your own compositional APIs similar to those found in React Aria Components itself. You can send any prop or ref via context that you could pass to the corresponding component. The local props and ref on the component are merged with the ones passed via context, with the local props taking precedence (following the rules documented in mergeProps).
<ContextTable components={['Tabs']} docs={docs} />
This example shows a Router component that accepts Tabs and Link elements as children. When a link is clicked, it updates the selected tab accordingly.
import type {PressEvent} from 'react-aria-components';
import {TabsContext, LinkContext} from 'react-aria-components';
function Router({children}) {
let [selectedKey, onSelectionChange] = React.useState(null);
let onPress = (e: PressEvent) => {
onSelectionChange(e.target.getAttribute('data-href'));
};
return (
/*- begin highlight -*/
<TabsContext.Provider value={{selectedKey, onSelectionChange}}>
<LinkContext.Provider value={{onPress}}>
{children}
</LinkContext.Provider>
</TabsContext.Provider>
);
}
Now clicking a link rendered within a Router navigates to the linked tab.
import {Link} from 'react-aria-components';
<Router>
<Tabs>
<TabList aria-label="Mesozoic time periods">
<Tab id="triassic">Triassic</Tab>
<Tab id="jurassic">Jurassic</Tab>
<Tab id="cretaceous">Cretaceous</Tab>
</TabList>
<TabPanel id="triassic">
The Triassic ranges roughly from 252 million to 201 million years ago,
preceding the <Link data-href="jurassic">Jurassic Period</Link>.
</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="jurassic">
The Jurassic ranges from 200 million years to 145 million years ago,
preceding the <Link data-href="cretaceous">Cretaceous Period</Link>.
</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="cretaceous">
The Cretaceous is the longest period of the Mesozoic, spanning from 145 million to 66 million years ago.
</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
</Router>
Tabs provides a <TypeLink links={statelyDocs.links} type={statelyDocs.exports.TabListState} /> object to its children via TabListStateContext. This can be used to access and manipulate the tab list state.
This example shows a TabNavigation component that can be placed within Tabs to navigate to the previous or next selected tab.
import {TabListStateContext, Button} from 'react-aria-components';
import {ArrowLeft, ArrowRight} from 'lucide-react';
function TabNavigation() {
/*- begin highlight -*/
let state = React.useContext(TabListStateContext);
/*- end highlight -*/
let prevKey = state?.collection.getKeyBefore(state.selectedKey);
let nextKey = state?.collection.getKeyAfter(state.selectedKey);
let onPrev = prevKey != null ? () => state.setSelectedKey(prevKey) : null;
let onNext = nextKey != null ? () => state.setSelectedKey(nextKey) : null;
return (
<div className="button-group">
<Button aria-label="Previous tab" onPress={onPrev}><ArrowLeft size={16} /></Button>
<Button aria-label="Next tab" onPress={onNext}><ArrowRight size={16} /></Button>
</div>
);
}
<Tabs>
<div style={{display: 'flex'}}>
<TabList aria-label="Tabs" style={{flex: 1}}>
<Tab id="home">Home</Tab>
<Tab id="projects">Projects</Tab>
<Tab id="search">Search</Tab>
</TabList>
<TabNavigation />
</div>
<TabPanel id="home">Home</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="projects">Projects</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="search">Search</TabPanel>
</Tabs>
.button-group .react-aria-Button[aria-label] {
font-size: 1.2rem;
line-height: 1rem;
font-weight: bold;
}
If you need to customize things even further, such as accessing internal state or customizing DOM structure, you can drop down to the lower level Hook-based API. See useTabList for more details.
@react-aria/test-utils offers common tabs interaction utilities which you may find helpful when writing tests. See here for more information on how to setup these utilities
in your tests. Below is the full definition of the tabs tester and a sample of how you could use it in your test suite.
// Tabs.test.ts
import {render} from '@testing-library/react';
import {User} from '@react-aria/test-utils';
let testUtilUser = new User({interactionType: 'mouse'});
// ...
it('Tabs can change selection via keyboard', async function () {
// Render your test component/app and initialize the listbox tester
let {getByTestId} = render(
<Tabs data-testid="test-tabs">
...
</Tabs>
);
let tabsTester = testUtilUser.createTester('Tabs', {root: getByTestId('test-tabs'), interactionType: 'keyboard'});
let tabs = tabsTester.tabs;
expect(tabsTester.selectedTab).toBe(tabs[0]);
await tabsTester.triggerTab({tab: 1});
expect(tabsTester.selectedTab).toBe(tabs[1]);
});