Tab (GUI) facts for kids
On computers using graphics for an interface, a tab is a way to switch between different controls (such as in a configuration screen), or documents (such as in a web browser or word processor). Only one tab can be active at a time.
Use in browsers
More recently tabs have become a popular feature of most web browsers. This allows you to have more than one website open in the same window.
Related pages
Images for kids
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Example of tabbed interface with two sets of tabs: Horizontal tabs, at the top, allow navigation to different pages within the Wiktionary website. Vertical tabs, to the left, represent languages in which a given spelling occurs, where the selected tab shows the word jam ('already') in Esperanto.
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HyperTIES browser and Gosling Emacs authoring tool with pie menus on the NeWS window system
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Geany text editor with vertically oriented tabs, showing the large number of documents that can be accommodated
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PSIBER visual PostScript programming environment for NeWS, with tabbed windows around objects on and off the stack.
See also
In Spanish: Pestaña (informática) para niños
