Create vertical Tab using html css

Question

Hi,

I am designing a page with vertical tab. But I am not sure about how to achieve this design. I don't want to use any javascript, jquery etc. Planning to create separate views for each tab menu item. So i can change the active tab in each view. Please help to solve this issue. I don't have much code to post. Please provide some links to move in right direction.. Thanks in advance.

This is what i did to acheive the design

<style>
 #content
{
   background-color: #f2f2f2;
   padding: 20px 10px;
   overflow: auto;
}
#tab-container
{
   float: left;
   margin: 50px 0 0 0;
   width: 126px;
}
#tab-container ul
{
   list-style: none;
   text-align: center;
}
#tab-container ul li
{
   border-top: 1px solid #666;
   border-right: 1px solid #666;
   border-bottom: 1px solid #666;
   border-left: 8px solid #666;
   background-color: #ddd;
   margin: 8px 0;
}
#tab-container ul li a,
#tab-container ul li a:visited
{
   text-decoration: none;
   color: #666;
   display: block;
   padding: 15px 5px;
}
#tab-container ul li:hover
{
   border-left: 8px solid #333;
}
#tab-container ul li a:hover
{
   color: #000;
}
#tab-container ul li.selected
{
   border-right: none;
   background-color: #fff;
   border-left: 8px solid #006699;
}
#main-container
{
   min-height: 400px;
   margin: 0 0 0 125px;
   padding: 20px;
   background-color: #fff;
   border: 1px solid #888;
}
 </style>
  <div id="content">
   <div id="tab-container">
      <ul>
         <li class="selected"><a href="">Introduction</a></li>
         <li><a href="">Html</a></li>
         <li><a href="">CSS</a></li>
         <li><a href="">JavaScript</a></li>
      </ul>
   </div>
   <div id="main-container">
      <h1>Put your content here...</h1>
   </div>
</div>

Answer 1

may i sure below demo useful for you;

DEMO

DEMO1

html

<div id="tabs">
    <ul>
        <li>
            <a href="#a">Tab A</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="#b">Tab B</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="#c">Tab C</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="#d">Tab D</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
    <div id="a">
        Content of A
    </div>
    <div id="b">
        Content of B
    </div>
    <div id="c">
        Content of C
    </div>
    <div id="d">
        Content of D
    </div>
</div>

css

.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical {
    padding: 0;
    width: 42em;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-widget-header {
    border: none;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav {
    float: left;
    width: 10em;
    background: #CCC;
    border-radius: 4px 0 0 4px;
    border-right: 1px solid gray;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li {
    clear: left;
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0.2em 0;
    border: 1px solid gray;
    border-width: 1px 0 1px 1px;
    border-radius: 4px 0 0 4px;
    overflow: hidden;
    position: relative;
    right: -2px;
    z-index: 2;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li a {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    padding: 0.6em 1em;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li a:hover {
    cursor: pointer;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li.ui-tabs-active {
    margin-bottom: 0.2em;
    padding-bottom: 0;
    border-right: 1px solid white;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-nav li:last-child {
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.ui-tabs.ui-tabs-vertical .ui-tabs-panel {
    float: left;
    width: 28em;
    border-left: 1px solid gray;
    border-radius: 0;
    position: relative;
    left: -1px;
}

js

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $('#tabs')
        .tabs()
        .addClass('ui-tabs-vertical ui-helper-clearfix');

  </script>