The tabs structure consists of an unordered list of tabs that have hashes corresponding to tab ids. Then when you click on each tab, only the container with the corresponding tab id will become visible. You can add the class .disabled to make a tab inaccessible.

• Test 1
• Another Tab
• Test 3
• Test 4

  <div class="row">
    <div class="col s12">
      <ul class="tabs">
        <li class="tab col s3"><a href="#test1">Test 1</a></li>
        <li class="tab col s3"><a class="active" href="#test2">Test 2</a></li>
        <li class="tab col s3 disabled"><a href="#test3">Disabled Tab</a></li>
        <li class="tab col s3"><a href="#test4">Test 4</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div id="test1" class="col s12">Test 1</div>
    <div id="test2" class="col s12">Test 2</div>
    <div id="test3" class="col s12">Test 3</div>
    <div id="test4" class="col s12">Test 4</div>
  </div>
        

Initialization

  var instance = M.Tabs.init(el, options);

  // Or with jQuery

  $(document).ready(function(){
    $('.tabs').tabs();
  });
        

Options

Methods

Because jQuery is no longer a dependency, all the methods are called on the plugin instance. You can get the plugin instance like this:

  var instance = M.Tabs.getInstance(elem);

  /* jQuery Method Calls
    You can still use the old jQuery plugin method calls.
    But you won't be able to access instance properties.

    $('.tabs').tabs('methodName');
    $('.tabs').tabs('methodName', paramName);
  */
          

.select();

Show tab content that corresponds to the tab with the id

Arguments

String: The id of the tab that you want to switch to

instance.select('tab_id');
        

.updateTabIndicator();

Recalculate tab indicator position. This is useful when the indicator position is not correct.

instance.updateTabIndicator();
        

.destroy();

Destroy plugin instance and teardown

instance.destroy();
        

Properties

Preselecting a tab

By default, the first tab is selected. But if this is not what you want, you can preselect a tab by either passing in the hash in the url ex:#test2. Or you can add the class active to the a tag.

  <li class="tab"><a class="active" href="#test3">Test 3</a></li>
        

Linking to an External Page

By default, Materialize tabs will ignore their default anchor behaviour. To force a tab to behave as a regular hyperlink, just specify the target property of that link! A list of target values may be found here.

  <li class="tab col s2">
    <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/materializecss/materialize">External link in new window</a>
  </li>
  <li class="tab col s2">
    <a target="_self" href="https://github.com/materializecss/materialize">External link in same window</a>
  </li>
        

Swipeable Tabs

By setting the swipeable option to true, you can enable tabs where you can swipe on touch enabled devices to switch tabs. Make sure you keep the tab content divs in the same wrapping container. You can also set the responsiveThreshold option to a screen width in pixels where the swipeable functionality will activate.

Note: This is also touch compatible! Try swiping with your finger to scroll through the carousel.

• Test 1
• Test 2
• Test 3

  <ul id="tabs-swipe-demo" class="tabs">
    <li class="tab col s3"><a href="#test-swipe-1">Test 1</a></li>
    <li class="tab col s3"><a class="active" href="#test-swipe-2">Test 2</a></li>
    <li class="tab col s3"><a href="#test-swipe-3">Test 3</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="test-swipe-1" class="col s12 blue">Test 1</div>
  <div id="test-swipe-2" class="col s12 red">Test 2</div>
  <div id="test-swipe-3" class="col s12 green">Test 3</div>
        

Fixed Width Tabs

Add the .tabs-fixed-width class to the tabs container

• Test 1
• Test 2
• Disabled Tab
• Test 4
• Test 5

  <ul class="tabs tabs-fixed-width tab-demo z-depth-1">
    <li class="tab"><a href="#test1">Test 1</a></li>
    <li class="tab"><a class="active" href="#test2">Test 2</a></li>
    <li class="tab disabled"><a href="#test3">Disabled Tab</a></li>
    <li class="tab"><a href="#test4">Test 4</a></li>
    <li class="tab"><a href="#test0">Test 5</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="test1" class="col s12"><p>Test 1</p></div>
  <div id="test2" class="col s12"><p>Test 2</p></div>
  <div id="test3" class="col s12"><p>Test 3</p></div>
  <div id="test4" class="col s12"><p>Test 4</p></div>
  <div id="test0" class="col s12"><p>Test 5</p></div>