Overview

Tab bars are used to display an app-level navigation/tabbing bar (usually at the bottom of the UI) that shows different content depending on which tab is selected.

Usage

Basic usage (don't worry about the shuffledeck structure, this is just for the demo):

<x-shuffledeck>
    <x-shuffleslide>One</x-shuffleslide>
    <x-shuffleslide>Two</x-shuffleslide>
</x-shuffledeck>
<x-tabbar>
    <x-tabbar-tab target-selector="x-shuffledeck x-shuffleslide:first-child">
        One
    </x-tabbar-tab>
    <x-tabbar-tab target-selector="x-shuffledeck x-shuffleslide:nth-child(2)">
        Two
    </x-tabbar-tab>
</x-tabbar>

This will produce a tab bar whose tabs are linked to showing slides one and two, respectively. When the tabs are clicked, they will fire show events on their targeted elements.

Alternatively, if you don't want to have to work out the CSS selectors for each tab, you could assign the target dynamically using the .targetElems property instead of setting target-selector on each <x-tabbar-tab>:

var slides = document.querySelectorAll('x-shuffleslide');
var tabs = document.querySelectorAll('x-tabbar-tab');
for(var i=0; i < slides.length && i < tabs.length; i++){
    tabs[i].targetElems = [slides[i]];
}

Attributes

target-event / targetEvent

Specifies the default event that any tabs in the tabbar should fire on their targeted elements. Defaults to "show".

Can be specified as the HTML attribute target-event or programmatically as the JavaScript property .targetEvent

target-event / targetEvent (x-tabbar-tab only)

If set, specifies the event that a single tab should fire on its targeted elements, overriding the parent x-tabbar's default.

Can be specified as the HTML attribute target-event or programmatically as the JavaScript property .targetEvent

target-selector / targetSelector (x-tabbar-tab only)

Defines how to select the target elements of a particular tab. This can be any format that would be a valid CSS selector for document.querySelectorAll

Can be specified as the HTML attribute target-selector or programmatically as the JavaScript property .targetSelector

Accessors (getters/setters)

tabs (getter only)

Returns a list of the <x-tabbar-tab> elements in the <x-tabbar>.

targetElems (x-tabbar-tab only)

getter: Returns a list of the the elements targeted by the specific tab

setter: Assigns the tab's targeted elements as the given list of elements. (If targets are assigned using this dynamic assignment, the target-selector attribute is removed.)

Methods

select() (x-tabbar-tab only)

Selects the tab. Triggers the select event on that x-tabbar-tab too.

Events

reveal (x-tabbar-tab only)

Whenever a x-tabbar-tab is tapped/clicked, and target-event is not otherwise specified, a reveal event is fired on each of its target elements. It is up to the target element to respond to this event.

Components with default implemented responses to reveal:

• Shuffledeck (reveal is applied to individual <x-shuffleslide>s)
• Slidebox (reveal is applied to individual <x-slide>s)
• Flipbox (reveal is applied to the front/back elements of the card)

select_ (x-tabbar-tab only)

The select event is fired when the tab is explicitly selected, using its select method.