Yetii – the extremely lightweight alternative to jQuery Tabs

Yetii stands for Yet (E)Another JavaScript Tab Interface Implementation. It is only 3.9 kb in compressed mode and the beauty of it is that it renders great even on browsers without JavaScript support. It’s fully customizable and framework independent. I mostly use  it for widget development because keeping widgets as light as possible but giving advanced interactions is the trick to go for.

Here are some of my favorite features:

• you can have many independend tab interfaces on a single page
• you can specify initial tab
• you can add next/previous navigation
• you can nest one tab interface inside another
• you can manually invoke tab showing method
• you can define custom function to run after certain tab is clicked
• you can define custom function to run when user leaves certain tab
• you can link to certain tab on page A from page B via URL parameter
• you can turn on tab persistence feature, so the most recently clicked tab is stored inside a cookie and remembered between page

You can see a working demo and download the script here: http://www.kminek.pl/lab/yetii/

Other great tab scripts:

• Jquery unobtrusive tabs
• MooTools Tabs

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