Getting Started with React Tab Component

19 Oct 202420 minutes to read

This section briefly explains about how to create a simple Tab component and configuring the Tab header content in React.

To get started quickly with React Tabs using Create React App, you can check out this video:

Dependencies

The following is the list of dependencies required to use the Tab component in your application.

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-navigations
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups

Setup for Local Development

To set-up a React application, choose any of the following ways. The best and easiest way is to use the create-react-app. It sets up your development environment in JavaScript and improvise your application for production. Refer to the installation instructions of create-react-app.

npx create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

or

yarn create react-app my-app
cd my-app
yarn start

To set-up a React application in TypeScript environment, run the following command.

npx create-react-app my-app --template typescript
cd my-app
npm start

Besides using the npx package runner tool, also create an application from the npm init. To begin with the npm init, upgrade the npm version to npm 6+.

npm init react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

Adding Syncfusion packages

All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.
To install Tab component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations --save

Adding CSS reference

Add components style as given below in src/App.css.

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations/styles/material.css';

To refer App.css in the application then import it in the src/App.tsx file

Initialize the Tab using JSON items collection

The Tab can be rendered by defining a JSON array. The item is rendered with header text and content for each Tab.

  • Import the Tab component to your src/App.tsx file using following code.
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: "Twitter" }, { text: "Facebook" }, { text: "WhatsApp" }];
    const content0 = () => {
        return <div>
      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.
    </div>;
    }
    const content1 = () => {
        return <div>
      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 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.
    </div>;
    }
    const content2 = () => {
        return <div>
      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.
    </div>;
    }
    return (<TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto'>
      <TabItemsDirective>
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[0]} content={content0}/>
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[1]} content={content1}/>
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[2]} content={content2}/>
      </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: "Twitter" }, { text: "Facebook" }, { text: "WhatsApp" }];

  const content0 = () => {
    return <div>
      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.
    </div>;
  }
  const content1 = () => {
    return <div>
      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 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.
    </div>;
  }
  const content2 = () => {
    return <div>
      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.
    </div>;
  }
  return (
    <TabComponent heightAdjustMode='Auto'>
      <TabItemsDirective>
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[0]} content={content0} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[1]} content={content1} />
        <TabItemDirective header={headerText[2]} content={content2} />
      </TabItemsDirective>
    </TabComponent>
  );
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
  • Run the application in the browser using the following command.
npm start

In the above sample code, element is the id of the HTML element in a page to which the Tab is initialized.

Initialize the Tab using HTML elements

The Tab component can be rendered based on the given HTML element using <TabComponent> tag. Header section must be enclosed with in a wrapper element using e-tab-header class and corresponding content must be mapped with e-content class.
You need to follow the below structure of HTML elements to render the Tab,


  <TabComponent id='defaultTab'>   --> Root Tab element
    <div class="e-tab-header">      --> Tab header
       <div>   --> Header Item
       </div>
    </div>
    <div class="e-content">      --> Tab content
       <div>   --> Content Item
       </div>
    </div>
  </TabComponent>


import { TabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

const ReactApp = () => {
    return (<TabComponent id='defaultTab'>
      <div className="e-tab-header">
        <div> Twitter </div>
        <div> Facebook </div>
        <div> WhatsApp </div>
      </div>
      <div className="e-content">
        <div>
          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.
        </div>
        <div>
          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.
        </div>
        <div>
          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.
        </div>
      </div>
    </TabComponent>);
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);
import { TabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

const ReactApp = () => {
  return (
    <TabComponent id='defaultTab'>
      <div className="e-tab-header">
        <div> Twitter </div>
        <div> Facebook </div>
        <div> WhatsApp </div>
      </div>
      <div className="e-content">
        <div>
          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.
        </div>
        <div>
          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.
        </div>
        <div>
          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.
        </div>
      </div>
    </TabComponent>
  );
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('element'));
root.render(<ReactApp />);

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