textual/docs/widgets/tabs.md

Tabs

Displays a number of tab headers which may be activated with a click or navigated with cursor keys.

• Focusable
• Container

Construct a Tabs widget with strings or [Text][rich.text.Text] objects as positional arguments, which will set the labels in the tabs. Here's an example with three tabs:

def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
    yield Tabs("First tab", "Second tab", Text.from_markup("[u]Third[/u] tab"))

This will create [Tab][textual.widgets.Tab] widgets internally, with auto-incrementing id attributes ("tab-1", "tab-2" etc). You can also supply Tab objects directly in the constructor, which will allow you to explicitly set an id. Here's an example:

def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
    yield Tabs(
        Tab("First tab", id="one"),
        Tab("Second tab", id="two"),
    )

When the user switches to a tab by clicking or pressing keys, then Tabs will send a [Tabs.TabActivated][textual.widgets.Tabs.TabActivated] message which contains the tab that was activated. You can then use event.tab.id attribute to perform any related actions.

Clearing tabs

Clear tabs by calling the [clear][textual.widgets.Tabs.clear] method. Clearing the tabs will send a [Tabs.TabActivated][textual.widgets.Tabs.TabActivated] message with the tab attribute set to None.

Adding tabs

Tabs may be added dynamically with the [add_tab][textual.widgets.Tabs.add_tab] method, which accepts strings, [Text][rich.text.Text], or [Tab][textual.widgets.Tab] objects.

Example

The following example adds a Tabs widget above a text label. Press ++a++ to add a tab, ++c++ to clear the tabs.

=== "Output"

```{.textual path="docs/examples/widgets/tabs.py" press="a,a,a,a,right,right"}
```

=== "tabs.py"

```python
--8<-- "docs/examples/widgets/tabs.py"
```

Reactive Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Description
active	str	""	The ID of the active tab. Set this attribute to a tab ID to change the active tab.

Messages

::: textual.widgets.Tabs.TabActivated

::: textual.widgets.Tabs.TabsCleared

Bindings

The Tabs widget defines the following bindings:

::: textual.widgets.Tabs.BINDINGS options: show_root_heading: false show_root_toc_entry: false

See Also

• Tabs code reference