srsgores/jquery-hash-tabs

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procmail opened this issue · 6 comments

procmail commented

Hi,

Your Hash Tabs plugin looks wonderful, and I am wondering if Hash Tabs can:

  1. have nested tabs within a tab (or tabs)?
  2. Open to a specific tab when the page loads?

Thanks!

srsgores commented
  1. No.
  2. Yes.
samhuntsocial commented

easytabs supports nested tabs, although the author seemed to have stopped maintaining the code base.

srsgores commented

Nested tabs have poor usability. Will not be implementing any time soon.

samhuntsocial commented

the nested tab does not have to be visually inside of the parent tab. it can just be visually underneath it. nowadays, with tabs that look like material design tabs, it's actually got a different usability feel to it. the tabs look lightweight to the user.

so, for material design tabs, you click a tab. below it shows 3 tabs. to the user, usability feels OK because the tabs are visually pretty light as it's just horizontal lines. to the developer, those are nested tabs.

i think nested tabs with hash would be pretty sweet.

was just using mailchimp's app. they use nested tabs. and, unfortunately, no their nested tabs aren't hashed either.

srsgores commented

The only way this could ever work is with query parameters. When I was designing this plugin, I had thought about implementing this feature, but reasoned that having such a feature would add unnecessary complications to the plugin initialization.

Perhaps you can make a pull request with query params as an initialization parameter, and we can see about merging in the feature; for now, I don't really see the point in nested tabs.

samhuntsocial commented

thanks. but i'm already using easytabs for my nested tabs (unfortunately, its hash for nested tabs doesn't work properly).