How to build a Tab

Tabs allow users to navigate between different panels, helping to reduce clutter on a page and fitting more information into a smaller space. A tab component is usually made up of 3 parts: the tab button itself, the tab panel with the content to be revealed and the tab group that arranges all tabs at the top.

These articles are a good starting point for building the tab component:

Building tabs in Web Components

David Darn goes through how his team built tabs in Web Components for Nordhelath’s design system.

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