Show or hide tab items in Angular Tab component

22 Sep 20257 minutes to read

The Tab component provides the hideTab method to dynamically show or hide tab items at runtime. This method accepts two parameters: the index of the tab item and a boolean value that determines the visibility state (true to hide the tab, false to show the tab).

The hideTab method enables developers to control tab visibility based on user interactions, application state changes, or conditional logic. When a tab is hidden, it becomes invisible to users but remains in the component’s item collection, allowing it to be shown again when needed. This functionality is particularly useful for creating adaptive user interfaces that respond to different user roles, permissions, or workflow states.

Key aspects of the hideTab method:

  • Index-based operation: Targets specific tab items using their zero-based index position
  • Boolean visibility control: Uses true to hide and false to show the specified tab item

The following demonstration shows how to implement dynamic tab visibility using button controls that toggle the visibility state of a specified tab item.

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'
import { TabModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations'
import { ButtonModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-buttons'



import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { ButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-buttons';
import { TabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations';

@Component({
imports: [
         FormsModule, TabModule, ButtonModule 
    ],


standalone: true,
    selector: 'app-container',
    template: `
<div class="control-section e-tab-section">
  <div class="e-sample-resize-container">
    <button
      #addButton
      ejs-button
      id="addButton"
      type="button"
      content="Hide/Show Tab Item"
      (click)="onButtonClick()"
    ></button>

    <!-- Render the Tab Component -->
    <ejs-tab #tabObj id="tab_default" heightAdjustMode="Auto">
      <e-tabitems>
        <e-tabitem [header]="headerText[0]">
          <ng-template #content>
            Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to
            send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
            Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are
            unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the
            website interface, SMS or mobile device app Twitter Inc. is based in
            San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter
            was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone,
            and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained
            worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users posting 340
            million tweets a day in 2012.The service also handled 1.6 billion
            search queries per day.
          </ng-template>
        </e-tabitem>
        <e-tabitem [header]="headerText[1]">
          <ng-template #content>
            Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in
            Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4,
            2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and
            fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz
            and Chris Hughes.The founders had initially limited the website\'\s
            membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in
            the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It
            gradually added support for students at various other universities
            and later to high-school students.
          </ng-template>
        </e-tabitem>
        <e-tabitem [header]="headerText[2]">
          <ng-template #content>
            WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging
            client for smartphones that operates under a subscription business
            model. It uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video,
            user location and audio media messages to other users using standard
            cellular mobile numbers. As of February 2016, WhatsApp had a user
            base of up to one billion,[10] making it the most globally popular
            messaging application. WhatsApp Inc., based in Mountain View,
            California, was acquired by Facebook Inc. on February 19, 2014, for
            approximately US$19.3 billion.
          </ng-template>
        </e-tabitem>
      </e-tabitems>
    </ejs-tab>
  </div>
</div>
        `
})

export class AppComponent {
  @ViewChild('tabObj')
  public tabObj?: TabComponent;
  @ViewChild('addButton')
  public addButton?: ButtonComponent;
  public isBool: boolean = false;
  // Mapping Tab items Header property
  public headerText: Object = [
    { text: 'Twitter', iconCss: 'e-twitter' },
    { text: 'Facebook', iconCss: 'e-facebook' },
    { text: 'WhatsApp', iconCss: 'e-whatsapp' },
  ];
  public onButtonClick(): void {
    this.isBool = !this.isBool;
    (this.tabObj as TabComponent).hideTab(0, this.isBool);
  }
}
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import 'zone.js';
bootstrapApplication(AppComponent).catch((err) => console.error(err));