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Tab (GUI) facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

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.

Gedit tab example
An example of tabs in gedit

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.

Firefox 2 Tabbed Browsing GNU-Linux
An example of Mozilla Firefox (version 2) with three tabs open.

Related pages

Images for kids

  • Language tabs on en wiktionary

    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.

  • HyperTIESAuthoring

    HyperTIES browser and Gosling Emacs authoring tool with pie menus on the NeWS window system

  • Geany-tabs

    Geany text editor with vertically oriented tabs, showing the large number of documents that can be accommodated

  • Psiber-tabs2

    PSIBER visual PostScript programming environment for NeWS, with tabbed windows around objects on and off the stack.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Pestaña (informática) para niños

kids search engine
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