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What is DOMtab?

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How to use DOMtab

Applying DOMtab to your pages is easy, all you need is to call the script in the head of the document:

<script type="text/javascript" src="domtab.js"></script>

DOMtab expects the following classes and element structure to work:

<div class="domtab">
  <ul class="domtabs">
    <li><a href="#t1">Test 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#t2">Test 2</a></li>
[... and so on ...]
  </ul>
  <div>
    <h2><a name="t1" id="t1">Proof 1</a></h2>
    <p>Test to prove that more than one menu is possible</p>
    <p><a href="#top">back to menu</a></p>
  </div>
  <div>
    <h2><a name="t2" id="t2">Proof 2</a></h2>
    <p>Test to prove that more than one menu is possible</p>
    <p><a href="#top">back to menu</a></p>
  </div>
[... and so on ...]
</div>

The showing and hiding of sections is achieved by reading out the hash data of the link url and retrieving the parent element of the element with the ID the original link points to.

The links to remove are identified via a pattern in their href attribute, preset to "#top".

If there is an element with the id domtabprintview in the document, DOMtab will create a link to show all elements in this one.

You can change all the settings in the script itself, as all HTML expections are parameters:

tabClass:'domtab', // class to trigger tabbing
listClass:'domtabs', // class of the menus
activeClass:'active', // class of current link
contentElements:'div', // elements to loop through
backToLinks:/#top/, // pattern to check "back to top" links
printID:'domtabprintview', // id of the print all link
showAllLinkText:'show all content', // text for the print all link

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Previous and next links

In this version I added the option to have previous and next links to navigate around the tabs in addition to clicking them.

If you want DOMtab to generate those, all you need to do is to add the class "doprevnext" in addition to the domtab class to the div in question:

<div class="domtab doprevnext">
  <ul class="domtabs">
    <li><a href="#t1">Test 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#t2">Test 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#t3">Test 3</a></li>
    <li><a href="#t4">Test 4</a></li>
  </ul>
  [... ad nauseam...]
</div>

DOMtab then generates the following link list in each of the sections, automatically removing the previous link in the first and the next in the last section:

<ul class="prevnext">
  <li class="prev"><a href="#">previous</a></li>
  <li class="next"><a href="#">next</a></li>
 </ul>

Once again, you can override any of these settings in the script's parameters:

prevNextIndicator:'doprevnext', // class to trigger links
prevNextClass:'prevnext', // class of the prev and next list
prevLabel:'previous', // HTML content of the prev link
nextLabel:'next', // HTML content of the next link
prevClass:'prev', // class for the prev link
nextClass:'next', // class for the next link

Both labels are set via innerHTML rather than the proper method :-). This allows you to use images if wanted:

prevLabel:'<img src="massivebuttonprev.png" alt="previous" />',

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