# Tabs

**Tabs make it easy to explore and switch between different views.**

Tabs organize and allow navigation between groups of content that are related and at the same level of hierarchy.

## Tabs

![](/files/-MAgIJMrllxj5aJvi82N)

```powershell
New-UDTabs -Tabs {
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item One' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item One' -Variant 'h2' }
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Two' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item Two' -Variant 'h2' }
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Three' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item Three' -Variant 'h2' }
}
```

## Vertical Tabs

![](/files/-MAgIR6blXjAG7vBiFhl)

```powershell
New-UDTabs -Tabs {
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item One' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item One' -Variant 'h2' }
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Two' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item Two' -Variant 'h2' }
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Three' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item Three' -Variant 'h2' }
} -Orientation vertical
```

## Dynamic Tabs

Dynamic tabs will refresh their content when they are selected. You will need to include the `-RenderOnActive` parameter to prevent all the tabs from rendering even if they are not shown.

```powershell
New-UDTabs -Tabs {
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item One' -Content { Get-Date } -Dynamic
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Two' -Content { Get-Date } -Dynamic
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Three' -Content { Get-Date } -Dynamic
} -RenderOnActive
```

## Icons

```powershell
New-UDTabs -Tabs {
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item One' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item One' -Variant 'h2' } -Icon (New-UDIcon -Icon Users)
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Two' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item Two' -Variant 'h2' } -Icon (New-UDIcon -Icon Desktop)
    New-UDTab -Text 'Item Three' -Content { New-UDTypography -Text 'Item Three' -Variant 'h2' } -Icon (New-UDIcon -Icon Exclamation)
}
```

## Selecting a tab based on a hash fragment

This allows for selecting a tab based on a `#tab1` hash in the URL to link to a specific tab. 

```powershell
$Tabs = @(
    New-UDTab -Text 'Tab1' -Id 'tab1' -Content {
        "Tab 1" 
    }  
    New-UDTab -Text 'Tab2' -Id 'tab2' -Content {
        "Tab 2" 
    }  
    New-UDTab -Text 'Tab3' -Id 'tab3' -Content {
        "Tab 3" 
    } 
)

$hash = Invoke-UDJavaScript "window.location.hash"
$SelectedTabIndex = 0

if ($hash -ne $null)
{
    for ($i=0; $i -lt $tabs.Length; $i++){
        if ($tabs[$i].id -eq $hash.TrimStart('#'))
        {
            $SelectedTabIndex = $i
        }
    }
}

New-UDTabs -Tabs {
    $Tabs
}  -SelectedTabIndex $SelectedTabIndex
```

## API

* [New-UDTabs](https://github.com/ironmansoftware/universal-docs/blob/v4/cmdlets/New-UDTabs.txt)
* [New-UDTab](https://github.com/ironmansoftware/universal-docs/blob/v4/cmdlets/New-UDTab.txt)


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