Source: Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine.
“The extensive amount of roads you can take in web design, specifically in navigation. Here, we will talk about one specific navigation technique, tab-based navigation. If properly carried out, tabbed navigation can be very clean and organized within a web layout.
So what is tabbed navigation? Well, it is essentially a set of buttons most often set horizontally. Tabs generally follow numerous different styling guidelines. First, a tab set usually is attached or purtrudes from a container, like in the example below. Also, notice how the open tab matches the background color of the container, and the other buttons are darker. This is one more common styling guideline…”
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