Quick Tabs

The Quick Tabs module allows you to create blocks of tabbed content, specifically views and blocks. You can create a block on your site containing up to six tabs with corresponding content. Clicking on the tabs makes the corresponding content display instantly (it uses jQuery). The content for each tabbed section can be either a view or an existing block. It is an ideal way to do something like the Most Popular / Most Emailed stories tabs you see on many news websites.

Once created, the Quick Tabs blocks show up in your block listing, ready to be configured and enabled like other blocks.

Multiple Quick Tabs blocks can be placed on a single page.

The main advantage this module has over other modules with similar jquery tabs functionality, is that it allows you to select not only blocks for your tabs but views as well. Although you could select a block that comes from a view, without this feature you couldn't for example have three different tabs that use the same view but pass in different arguments. An example of such an implementation is on www.spin.com (though this uses an "ancestor" of Quick Tabs called jQueryViews) - if you look on the homepage at the "It Happened Last Night" block, the content for each tab comes from the same view, it just passes in a different argument each time which is then used as the offset for the view. The idea for Quick Tabs in fact came from the needs of Spin.com. It was important to be able to pass in views directly, and with this level of flexibility, into the tab content.

For theming of the tabs, 9 styles have been provided for you to choose from, along with the default option of no style, if you prefer to add your own theming instead.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
5.x-1.2	2008-Apr-18	46.71 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Development snapshots	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-1.x-dev	2008-Apr-24	40.4 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot
5.x-1.x-dev	2008-Apr-23	46.93 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot