AI Tabs Generator.

Describe your panels and MeDo generates a full tabs component — correct ARIA roles, arrow-key navigation, an animated active indicator, mobile overflow handling, and an active tab that syncs to the URL so it survives a reload.

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Tabs Are a Routing Decision Disguised as a Styling Decision

A tab set does not just hide content, it splits one page into several views that share a single URL. The moment someone wants to share the Pricing tab, link to it from a support article, or refresh without losing their place, the component needs real state that lives outside React. Teams usually discover this after the tabs ship, then bolt on query-string handling that fights the animation and the initial render. Deciding up front that the active tab is derived from the URL rather than from local state makes the whole component simpler: the trigger becomes a link-like action, deep links work for free, and server rendering produces the correct panel on the first paint. It also changes how you write the markup, which is why it is much cheaper to generate it that way than to retrofit it.

6 templates

Tabs Templates You Can Generate

Every template is a real prompt, not a screenshot. Copy it into any AI editor, or run it in MeDo and get React + Tailwind code back.

BasicUnderline

Underlined Tab Row With a Sliding Indicator

The default that reads as tabs without any explanation. Reach for it when the panels are static content and you want the indicator to do the signalling rather than a border box.

Create a tabs component with four triggers using the ARIA tabs pattern: role="tablist" on the container, role="tab" with aria-selected and aria-controls on each trigger, and role="tabpanel" with aria-labelledby on each panel. Use roving tabindex so only the selected tab has tabindex 0 and Tab moves out of the group entirely rather than through it. Left and Right arrows move focus and wrap at both ends, Home and End jump to the first and last tab, and activation is automatic because the panels are static text. Triggers are 40px tall with 15px medium labels, muted grey when inactive and near-black when active. Measure the active trigger and slide a 2px underline using translateX and scaleX over 200ms — never animate left or width.

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SegmentedPill Segmented

Segmented Control With a Sliding Pill

Two or three mutually exclusive options that belong on one control, like monthly versus annual. Do not use it past four tabs — the track stops fitting on a phone and equal widths force truncation.

Create a segmented-control tabs component: one rounded 36px-tall track with a light grey background and 2px inner padding, holding three equal-width triggers. The active trigger is a white pill with a soft shadow that moves between positions with translateX over 180ms, so the label text never reflows mid-transition. Keep the full ARIA tabs roles and roving tabindex — Left and Right arrows move focus with wrapping, Home and End jump to the ends, and activation is automatic. Give every trigger the same explicit min-width so switching from a short label to a long one does not resize the track. Under prefers-reduced-motion, cross-fade the pill background instead of sliding it.

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Deep linkableURL-Synced

Tabs Backed by a Query Parameter

The active tab lives in the URL, so support can link to one panel and a reload keeps your place. Worth doing before launch, because retrofitting it means rewriting the initial render.

Create a tabs component whose active tab is derived from a ?tab= query parameter rather than local state, so the first server render already paints the correct panel with no post-hydration flash. Read the parameter, validate it against the known tab ids, and fall back to the first tab when the value is unrecognised. On selection, write the new value with a replace-style navigation so the back button is not filled with tab switches, and preserve every other query parameter already on the URL. Keep the ARIA tabs wiring intact: roving tabindex, Left and Right arrows with wrapping, Home and End, and manual activation on Enter or Space.

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OverflowScrollable

Horizontally Scrolling Tablist

What happens when seven labels meet a 390px viewport. The part teams forget is scrolling the newly focused tab into view — arrow keys otherwise move focus to a tab nobody can see.

Create a tabs component that handles overflow by scrolling rather than wrapping or clipping. Under 640px the tablist scrolls horizontally with momentum, the scrollbar is hidden, and a gradient fade appears on either edge only while content remains in that direction. When Left or Right arrow moves the roving tabindex, call scrollIntoView with inline nearest on the newly focused trigger so keyboard focus is never off screen, and do the same for Home and End. Use scroll-snap-align on each trigger so a flick settles on a label boundary instead of mid-word. Keep the full ARIA roles and aria-controls wiring, and recompute the indicator position on scroll and on resize.

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PerformanceLazy Panels

Tabs With Deferred Panel Mounting

Only the active panel mounts, so opening Settings does not fetch invoices nobody asked for. The catch is state loss, so name the panels that must survive a switch.

Create a tabs component that mounts only the active panel and keeps every inactive panel out of the DOM entirely, so charts, video players and data fetches for unseen tabs never run. Use manual activation — arrow keys move the roving tabindex and only Enter or Space commits the change — because automatic activation would fire a request for every tab a keyboard user passes through. Accept a keepMounted list of tab ids whose panels stay in the DOM hidden with the hidden attribute instead, for panels holding half-filled forms or scroll position. Show a skeleton inside a newly mounted panel while its data resolves, and keep the panel container height stable so the page below does not jump.

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SidebarVertical

Vertical Tabs for Settings Screens

A left rail of labels beside one panel. The one thing that changes beyond layout is the arrow axis — Up and Down, not Left and Right, and aria-orientation has to say so.

Create a vertical tabs component for a settings screen: a 200px left rail of triggers with a single panel to its right. Set aria-orientation="vertical" on the tablist and bind Arrow Up and Arrow Down to move the roving tabindex with wrapping, since Left and Right are wrong on this axis; keep Home and End for the ends. Triggers are left-aligned rows, 36px tall, with a 2px indicator on the left edge that translates vertically over 200ms. Below 768px collapse the rail into a horizontal scrolling tablist above the panel and switch the arrow bindings and aria-orientation to match. Use manual activation, and give the panel tabindex="-1" so a programmatic focus move after selection is possible.

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How to Customize Your Tabs

Choose automatic or manual activation deliberately

Automatic activation switches panels as arrow keys move focus, which is fast but useless when panels are expensive to render or fetch data. Manual activation moves focus first and only activates on Enter or Space. Say which one you want, because the keyboard code differs.

Animate the indicator with transform, not width

Ask for an underline that measures the active trigger and slides using translateX and scaleX. Animating left and width thrashes layout on every frame and jitters on subpixel boundaries, and it breaks entirely once the tablist can scroll.

Decide what happens when tabs overflow

Four short labels fit on a phone; seven do not. Pick one behavior and state it: a horizontally scrolling tablist with an edge fade, wrapping onto a second row, or collapsing into a native select below a breakpoint. Left unspecified, generated tabs usually just clip.

Say whether inactive panels stay mounted

Unmounting inactive panels keeps the DOM small and avoids running charts or video players nobody sees, but it also discards scroll position and half-filled form fields. Mention which panels hold state so the ones that need to persist are hidden with CSS instead.

Who Uses the Tabs Component

Pricing page

Monthly and annual billing as two tabs above a single price grid, with the choice written to the URL so sales can link straight to annual pricing and the annual discount is visible on first load.

Product documentation

Code samples split by language — curl, Node, Python, Go — where selecting a language once applies to every tab group on the page and is remembered on the next visit.

Dashboard or admin tool

A settings screen with Profile, Team, Billing, and API Keys tabs where each panel is lazily mounted, so opening Settings does not fetch invoices nobody asked for.

E-commerce product page

Description, Specifications, and Reviews as tabs beneath the gallery, with the review count in the trigger label and the description rendered in the page body as well, so the core copy is not only reachable behind a tab.

Tabs Patterns for Different Websites

The same tabs component, tuned to the kind of site it ships on.

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SaaS Pricing Page Tabs

Monthly and annual billing as a two-tab segmented control above one price grid. Sync the choice to the URL so a sales email can open annual pricing directly — a pricing page where the discount is one unshareable click away is losing the conversation before it starts.

Tabs Styles and Variants

Pick the variant that matches the rest of the page, then generate it.

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Underlined Tabs

A muted label row with a 2px indicator sliding beneath the active trigger. The most legible default because the underline gives the eye a single moving object to track. Animate it with translateX and scaleX — animating left and width thrashes layout every frame and jitters on subpixel boundaries.

Tabs in React, Next.js, Vue and Svelte

React, Next.js, Vue 3, SvelteKit, Astro or plain HTML — the same tabs, six ways to drop it in.

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React Tabs

Keep the selected id in one piece of state and derive tabindex from it — that is the whole roving tabindex mechanism. Hold refs to the triggers so the arrow handler can focus the next one directly.

src/components/Tabs.tsx

const [active, setActive] = useState(tabs[0].id)

<div role="tablist" onKeyDown={onArrowKeys}>
  {tabs.map((t) => (
    <button
      key={t.id}
      role="tab"
      aria-selected={t.id === active}
      aria-controls={`panel-${t.id}`}
      tabIndex={t.id === active ? 0 : -1}
      onClick={() => setActive(t.id)}
    >
      {t.label}
    </button>
  ))}
</div>

How to Add Your Tabs to a Project

Four steps, from picking a tabs template to shipping it in production.

01~30s

Pick a Tabs Template

Choose by constraint, not by looks: segmented for two or three alternatives, scrollable once labels overflow a phone, vertical for a long settings rail, lazy when a panel fetches data.

02~10s

Copy the Prompt

Take the prompt into MeDo, Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Cursor, then edit two things — your real tab labels, and whether activation is automatic or manual. That second choice changes the keyboard code, so decide it before you generate.

03~1min

Generate and Refine

You get React + Tailwind back with a live preview. Follow up in plain English — "sync the active tab to ?tab=", "collapse to a select under 640px", "keep the chart panel mounted" — rather than editing the keydown handler by hand.

04~2min

Wire the Panels and Ship

Replace the placeholder panels with your real content and check three things with the keyboard only: Tab enters and leaves the group in one stop, arrows move within it, and a reload on a deep link opens the right panel.

Common Questions About Tabs

How do I generate an accessible tabs component with AI?

Describe the tab labels and the behavior you want in one prompt, including whether activation is automatic or manual. MeDo generates the tablist, tab, and tabpanel roles with matching aria-controls and aria-labelledby wiring, plus roving tabindex so arrow keys move between tabs and Tab moves out of the group entirely.

What is the difference between automatic and manual tab activation?

With automatic activation, moving focus with an arrow key immediately shows that panel, which suits cheap static content. With manual activation, arrow keys only move focus and the user confirms with Enter or Space. Use manual whenever a panel fetches data, renders a chart, or is otherwise slow, since automatic activation would fire a request for every tab a keyboard user passes through.

Can I link directly to a specific tab?

Yes, if the active tab is stored in the URL rather than in component state. Ask for a query parameter such as ?tab=pricing that seeds the initial render and updates with a replace-style navigation so the back button is not filled with tab switches. Avoid a hash fragment for this, because the browser will also try to scroll to a matching element id.

Does content hidden in inactive tabs hurt SEO?

Search engines index text that is present in the HTML even when a panel is visually hidden, so tabbed content is not invisible. It is generally weighted as secondary to the content a visitor sees immediately, and panels rendered only after a click may not be crawled at all. Keep your primary heading, value proposition, and target keywords in the always-visible part of the page and use tabs for supporting detail.

How should tabs behave on mobile?

Pick a single strategy rather than letting labels shrink. A horizontally scrollable tablist with a fade on the overflowing edge works well up to about six short labels; beyond that, collapsing into a native select gives a better touch target and avoids hidden tabs. Tell MeDo the breakpoint and the strategy and it will generate both layouts from one component.

Should I use tabs or an accordion?

Use tabs when the panels are alternatives the user compares one at a time, such as billing periods or code languages, and when the labels are short enough to sit on one line. Use an accordion when the sections are independent items someone may want open at once, when the labels are full questions, or when the content is long enough that vertical stacking reads better — an FAQ list is the canonical accordion case, not a tabs case.