vertical Tabs

[disimone]

Dear all,

first of all, thanks for providing these widgets.

I was wondering is there is a way to get the tabs of the Tab widget to be placed vertically. I mean that the whole tab bar should be rotated by 180 degrees, including text. My use-case is that I would like to nest two Tab widgets, and I think the navigation would be a lot easier if the tabs from the two levels were also clearly distinct.

Thanks for your help,

Andrea.

[jasongrout]

Great idea. It's possible to augment the code to do this - JupyterLab already has vertical tabs. We'd just need to figure out how it works over there and copy the changes over to our code.

[disimone]

Hi Jason,

thanks for your reply.

Since this needs to be implemented, I'll add another small request: in addition to vertical/horizontal, it would be great to be able to choose the tab position wrt the contents: top/bottom (or left/right for vertical tabs)

[jasongrout]

Thanks. If you'd like to do this, I can help you get started on a pull request.

[jasongrout]

Also note that you might be able to use the accordion widget as a differentiating container.

[disimone]

Hi Jason,

good point, the accordion is a nice alternative. As far as implementing the widget myself, I have unfortunately no experience at all with javascript, so if that is a prerequisite, I am afraid I can't be of anz help.

[info-rchitect]

Any update on this?

[jasongrout]

No update that I know of. If someone is willing to work on this, please post here.

[jamiecook]

I think that Google's Colab spaces have support for this use case. Their UI controller is called a TabBar