Adaptive in React Tab component

29 Aug 202324 minutes to read

The following section explains about rendering Tab when its width exceeds the viewable area or particularly in a given width.
The available modes are as follows:

  • Scrollable
  • Popup

Scrollable

The default overflow mode is Scrollable. Scrollable display mode supports displaying the Tab header items in a single line with horizontal scrolling enabled, when the item overflows to the available space.

  • The right and left navigation arrow is added at the start and end of the Tab header through which user can navigate
    towards overflowed items of the Tab header.
  • You can also see the overflowed items using touch and swipe action on the header and content section.
  • By default, navigation icon in the left direction is disabled, you can see the overflowed items by moving in the right direction.
  • By clicking the arrow or by holding the arrow continuously, you can see the overflowed items.

Scrollable tab

  • In devices the navigation icons are not available. You can touch and swipe to see the overflowed items of the Tab header.

Touch scroll

import { TabComponent, TabItemDirective, TabItemsDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
const ReactApp = () => {
  let headerText = [{ text: "HTML" }, { text: "C Sharp(C#)" }, { text: "Java" }, { text: "VB.Net" }, { text: "Xamarin" }, { text: "ASP.NET" }, { text: "ASP.NET MVC" }, { text: "JavaScript" }];
  const htmlContent = () => {
    return <div>
      HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup
      language used to create web pages. Along with CSS, and JavaScript, HTML is a cornerstone
      technology, used by most websites to create visually engaging web pages, user interfaces
      for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications.[1] Web browsers
      can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes
      the structure of a website semantically along with cues for presentation, making it a
      markup language, rather than a programming language.
    </div>;
  }
  const csharpContent = () => {
    return <div>
      'C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented
      programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent
      version is C# 5.0, which was released on August 15, 2012.
    </div>;
  }
  const javaContent = () => {
    return <div>
      Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by Sun Microsystems,
      later acquired by Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application
      software and deploying it in a cross-mobile phones to platform computing environment. Java
      is used in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and enterprise servers
      and supercomputers. While less common, Java applets run in secure, sandboxed environments to
      provide many features of native applications and can be embedded in HTML pages.
    </div>;
  }
  const vbcNetContent = () => {
    return <div>
      The command-line compiler, VBC.EXE, is installed as part of the freeware .NET
      Framework SDK. Mono also includes a command-line VB.NET compiler. The most recent version
      is VB 2012, which was released on August 15, 2012.
    </div>;
  }
  const xamarinContent = () => {
    return <div>
      Xamarin is a San Francisco, California based software company created in May
      2011[3] by the engineers that created Mono,[4] Mono for Android and MonoTouch that are
      cross-platform implementations of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common
      Language Specifications (often called Microsoft .NET). With a C#-shared codebase,developers
      can use Xamarin tools to write native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with native user interfaces
      and share code across multiple platforms.[5] Xamarin has over 1 million developers in more
      than 120 countries around the World as of May 2015.'
    </div>;
  }
  const aspContent = () => {
    return <div>
      ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework designed for web
      development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers
      to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. It was first released in January
      2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft\'\s Active Server
      Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing
      programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language. The ASP.NET SOAP extension
      framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.
    </div>;
  }
  const mvcContent = () => {
    return <div>
      The ASP.NET MVC is a web application framework developed by Microsoft, which implements
      the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. It is open-source software, apart from the ASP.NET Web
      Forms component which is proprietary. In the later versions of ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET web
      API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (a platform using only Razor pages) will merge into a unified MVC 6.
      The project is called ASP.NET vNext.
    </div>;
  }
  const jsContent = () => {
    return <div>
      JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language. It was originally
      implemented as part of web browsers so that client-side scripts could interact with the
      user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that
      was displayed.[5] More recently, however, it has become common in both game development
      and the creation of desktop applications.
    </div>;
  }
  return (<TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto' overflowMode='Scrollable'>
    <TabItemsDirective>
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[0]} content={htmlContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[1]} content={csharpContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[2]} content={javaContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[3]} content={vbcNetContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[4]} content={xamarinContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[5]} content={aspContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[6]} content={mvcContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[7]} content={jsContent} />
    </TabItemsDirective>
  </TabComponent>);
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
import { TabComponent, TabItemDirective, TabItemsDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

const ReactApp = () => {
  let headerText: any = [{ text: "HTML" }, { text: "C Sharp(C#)" }, { text: "Java" }, { text: "VB.Net" }, { text: "Xamarin" }, { text: "ASP.NET" }, { text: "ASP.NET MVC" }, { text: "JavaScript" }];

  const htmlContent = () => {
    return <div>
  HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup
  language used to create web pages. Along with CSS, and JavaScript, HTML is a cornerstone
  technology, used by most websites to create visually engaging web pages, user interfaces
  for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications.[1] Web browsers
  can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes
  the structure of a website semantically along with cues for presentation, making it a
  markup language, rather than a programming language.
</div>;
}
const csharpContent = () => {
    return <div>
  'C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented
  programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent
  version is C# 5.0, which was released on August 15, 2012.
</div>;
}
const javaContent = () => {
    return <div>
  Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by Sun Microsystems,
  later acquired by Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application
  software and deploying it in a cross-mobile phones to platform computing environment. Java
  is used in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and enterprise servers
  and supercomputers. While less common, Java applets run in secure, sandboxed environments to
  provide many features of native applications and can be embedded in HTML pages.
</div>;
}
const vbcNetContent = () => {
    return <div>
  The command-line compiler, VBC.EXE, is installed as part of the freeware .NET
  Framework SDK. Mono also includes a command-line VB.NET compiler. The most recent version
  is VB 2012, which was released on August 15, 2012.
</div>;
}
const xamarinContent = () => {
    return <div>
  Xamarin is a San Francisco, California based software company created in May
  2011[3] by the engineers that created Mono,[4] Mono for Android and MonoTouch that are
  cross-platform implementations of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common
  Language Specifications (often called Microsoft .NET). With a C#-shared codebase,developers
  can use Xamarin tools to write native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with native user interfaces
  and share code across multiple platforms.[5] Xamarin has over 1 million developers in more
  than 120 countries around the World as of May 2015.'
</div>;
}
const aspContent = () => {
    return <div>
  ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework designed for web
  development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers
  to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. It was first released in January
  2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft\'\s Active Server
  Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing
  programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language. The ASP.NET SOAP extension
  framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.
</div>;
}
const mvcContent = () => {
    return <div>
  The ASP.NET MVC is a web application framework developed by Microsoft, which implements
  the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. It is open-source software, apart from the ASP.NET Web
  Forms component which is proprietary. In the later versions of ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET web
  API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (a platform using only Razor pages) will merge into a unified MVC 6.
  The project is called ASP.NET vNext.
</div>;
}
const jsContent = () => {
    return <div>
  JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language. It was originally
  implemented as part of web browsers so that client-side scripts could interact with the
  user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that
  was displayed.[5] More recently, however, it has become common in both game development
  and the creation of desktop applications.
</div>;
}
  return (
    <TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto' overflowMode='Scrollable'>
      <TabItemsDirective>
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[0]} content={htmlContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[1]} content={csharpContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[2]} content={javaContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[3]} content={vbcNetContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[4]} content={xamarinContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[5]} content={aspContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[6]} content={mvcContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[7]} content={jsContent} />
      </TabItemsDirective>
    </TabComponent>
  );
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Tab</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='container'>
        <div id='element'>
                <div id='loader'>Loading</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

The Popup is the another type of overflowMode in which the Tab container holds the items that can be placed within the available space. The rest of the overflowing items for which there is no space to fit within the viewing area are moved to overflow popup container.

  • The items placed in popup can be viewed by opening the popup with the help of drop-down icon given at the end of the Tab header.

  • If the popup height exceeds the height of the visible area, you can scroll through the popup items and select one.

Tab with popup

import { TabComponent, TabItemDirective, TabItemsDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
const ReactApp = () => {
  let headerText = [{ text: "HTML" }, { text: "C Sharp(C#)" }, { text: "Java" }, { text: "VB.Net" }, { text: "Xamarin" }, { text: "ASP.NET" }, { text: "ASP.NET MVC" }, { text: "JavaScript" }];
  const htmlContent = () => {
    return <div>
      HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup
      language used to create web pages. Along with CSS, and JavaScript, HTML is a cornerstone
      technology, used by most websites to create visually engaging web pages, user interfaces
      for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications.[1] Web browsers
      can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes
      the structure of a website semantically along with cues for presentation, making it a
      markup language, rather than a programming language.
    </div>;
  }
  const csharpContent = () => {
    return <div>
      'C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented
      programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent
      version is C# 5.0, which was released on August 15, 2012.
    </div>;
  }
  const javaContent = () => {
    return <div>
      Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by Sun Microsystems,
      later acquired by Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application
      software and deploying it in a cross-mobile phones to platform computing environment. Java
      is used in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and enterprise servers
      and supercomputers. While less common, Java applets run in secure, sandboxed environments to
      provide many features of native applications and can be embedded in HTML pages.
    </div>;
  }
  const vbcNetContent = () => {
    return <div>
      The command-line compiler, VBC.EXE, is installed as part of the freeware .NET
      Framework SDK. Mono also includes a command-line VB.NET compiler. The most recent version
      is VB 2012, which was released on August 15, 2012.
    </div>;
  }
  const xamarinContent = () => {
    return <div>
      Xamarin is a San Francisco, California based software company created in May
      2011[3] by the engineers that created Mono,[4] Mono for Android and MonoTouch that are
      cross-platform implementations of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common
      Language Specifications (often called Microsoft .NET). With a C#-shared codebase,developers
      can use Xamarin tools to write native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with native user interfaces
      and share code across multiple platforms.[5] Xamarin has over 1 million developers in more
      than 120 countries around the World as of May 2015.'
    </div>;
  }
  const aspContent = () => {
    return <div>
      ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework designed for web
      development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers
      to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. It was first released in January
      2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft\'\s Active Server
      Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing
      programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language. The ASP.NET SOAP extension
      framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.
    </div>;
  }
  const mvcContent = () => {
    return <div>
      The ASP.NET MVC is a web application framework developed by Microsoft, which implements
      the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. It is open-source software, apart from the ASP.NET Web
      Forms component which is proprietary. In the later versions of ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET web
      API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (a platform using only Razor pages) will merge into a unified MVC 6.
      The project is called ASP.NET vNext.
    </div>;
  }
  const jsContent = () => {
    return <div>
      JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language. It was originally
      implemented as part of web browsers so that client-side scripts could interact with the
      user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that
      was displayed.[5] More recently, however, it has become common in both game development
      and the creation of desktop applications.
    </div>;
  }
  return (<TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto' overflowMode='Popup'>
    <TabItemsDirective>
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[0]} content={htmlContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[1]} content={csharpContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[2]} content={javaContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[3]} content={vbcNetContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[4]} content={xamarinContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[5]} content={aspContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[6]} content={mvcContent} />
      <TabItemDirective header={headerText[7]} content={jsContent} />
    </TabItemsDirective>
  </TabComponent>);
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
import { TabComponent, TabItemDirective, TabItemsDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

const ReactApp = () => {
  let headerText: any = [{ text: "HTML" }, { text: "C Sharp(C#)" }, { text: "Java" }, { text: "VB.Net" }, { text: "Xamarin" }, { text: "ASP.NET" }, { text: "ASP.NET MVC" }, { text: "JavaScript" }];

  const htmlContent = () => {
    return <div>
  HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup
  language used to create web pages. Along with CSS, and JavaScript, HTML is a cornerstone
  technology, used by most websites to create visually engaging web pages, user interfaces
  for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications.[1] Web browsers
  can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes
  the structure of a website semantically along with cues for presentation, making it a
  markup language, rather than a programming language.
</div>;
}
const csharpContent = () => {
    return <div>
  'C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented
  programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent
  version is C# 5.0, which was released on August 15, 2012.
</div>;
}
const javaContent = () => {
    return <div>
  Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by Sun Microsystems,
  later acquired by Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application
  software and deploying it in a cross-mobile phones to platform computing environment. Java
  is used in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and enterprise servers
  and supercomputers. While less common, Java applets run in secure, sandboxed environments to
  provide many features of native applications and can be embedded in HTML pages.
</div>;
}
const vbcNetContent = () => {
    return <div>
  The command-line compiler, VBC.EXE, is installed as part of the freeware .NET
  Framework SDK. Mono also includes a command-line VB.NET compiler. The most recent version
  is VB 2012, which was released on August 15, 2012.
</div>;
}
const xamarinContent = () => {
    return <div>
  Xamarin is a San Francisco, California based software company created in May
  2011[3] by the engineers that created Mono,[4] Mono for Android and MonoTouch that are
  cross-platform implementations of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common
  Language Specifications (often called Microsoft .NET). With a C#-shared codebase,developers
  can use Xamarin tools to write native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with native user interfaces
  and share code across multiple platforms.[5] Xamarin has over 1 million developers in more
  than 120 countries around the World as of May 2015.'
</div>;
}
const aspContent = () => {
    return <div>
  ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework designed for web
  development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers
  to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. It was first released in January
  2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft\'\s Active Server
  Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing
  programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language. The ASP.NET SOAP extension
  framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.
</div>;
}
const mvcContent = () => {
    return <div>
  The ASP.NET MVC is a web application framework developed by Microsoft, which implements
  the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. It is open-source software, apart from the ASP.NET Web
  Forms component which is proprietary. In the later versions of ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET web
  API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (a platform using only Razor pages) will merge into a unified MVC 6.
  The project is called ASP.NET vNext.
</div>;
}
const jsContent = () => {
    return <div>
  JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language. It was originally
  implemented as part of web browsers so that client-side scripts could interact with the
  user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that
  was displayed.[5] More recently, however, it has become common in both game development
  and the creation of desktop applications.
</div>;
}
  return (
    <TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto' overflowMode='Popup'>
      <TabItemsDirective>
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[0]} content={htmlContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[1]} content={csharpContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[2]} content={javaContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[3]} content={vbcNetContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[4]} content={xamarinContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[5]} content={aspContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[6]} content={mvcContent} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[7]} content={jsContent} />
      </TabItemsDirective>
    </TabComponent>
  );
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Tab</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='container'>
        <div id='element'>
                <div id='loader'>Loading</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

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