On my page i have some custom links(tabs). on clicking respective link its content is shown. By default the first tab class is selected and its content is shown rest are set to display:none; clicking any other link will result in assigning class selected to it and setting it to display:block; and rest to display:none;. Here is the html when page loads.
Html
<div class="vtabs">
<a href="#tab-order" class="selected">Order Details</a> // by default its class is selected
<a href="#tab-payment">Payment Details</a>
<a href="#tab-shipping">Shipping Details</a>
<a href="#tab-product">Products</a><a href="#tab-history">History</a>
<a id="label_tab" href="#tab-label">HX Endicia Labels</a>
</div>
<div id="tab-order" class="vtabs-content" style="display: block;">Tab1</div>
<div id="tab-payment" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab2</div>
<div id="tab-shipping" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab3</div>
<div id="tab-product" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab4</div>
<div id="tab-label" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab5</div>
What i want is to have a check that if some given condition is true than load the last tab on page load. like
Html
<div class="vtabs">
<a href="#tab-order">Order Details</a>
<a href="#tab-payment">Payment Details</a>
<a href="#tab-shipping">Shipping Details</a>
<a href="#tab-product">Products</a><a href="#tab-history">History</a>
<a id="label_tab" href="#tab-label" class="selected">HX Endicia Labels</a>
</div>
<div id="tab-order" class="vtabs-content" style="display: block;">Tab1</div>
<div id="tab-payment" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab2</div>
<div id="tab-shipping" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab3</div>
<div id="tab-product" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab4</div>
<div id="tab-label" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab5</div>
For this i did some thing like this in my view file but didn't work. iam getting this error in console "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'className' of null"
<script type="text/javascript">
function run(){
alert('testing');
document.getElementById('label_tab').className = 'selected';
document.getElementById('tab-label').style.display = 'block';
}
function hideAllTabs() {
var tab_contents = document.getElementsByClassName('vtabs-content');
for (var i = 0; i < tab_contents.length; ++i) {
tab_contents.style.display = 'none';
}
}
<?php
if (!isset($labeltab)) {
echo "hideAllTabs();";
echo "run();";
}
?>
</script>
The code that you have will work. You just need to make sure that the script code is either:
a) Below the HTML
b) Ran after page has finished loading.
What I would do in your place, I would create a function that, first of all, hides all of the tabs - helps you not have multiple tabs open at the same time.
A simple Javascript function to hide your tabs (since they all share the same class):
function hideAllTabs() {
var tab_contents = document.getElementsByClassName('vtabs-content');
for (var i = 0; i < tab_contents.length; ++i) {
tab_contents.style.display = 'none';
}
}
you can use my solution with tabs on FIDDLE
HTML here:
<div class="tab-nav">
<ul class="tabs">
<li rel="tab1" class="active">Tab1</li>
<li rel="tab2">Tab2</li>
<li rel="tab3">Tab3</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="tabsContent">
<div id="tab1" class="tab active">
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</div>
<div id="tab2" class="tab">
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</div>
<div id="tab3" class="tab">
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</div>
</div>
JS here:
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery('.tabs li').on('click', function(){
jQuery('.tabs li.active').removeClass('active');
jQuery(this).addClass('active');
var selectTab = jQuery(this).attr('rel');
jQuery('.tab.active').hide(0,tab);
function tab() {
jQuery(this).removeClass('active');
jQuery('#'+selectTab).show(0,function(){
jQuery(this).addClass('active');
});
}
});
});
and CSS here:
.tab-navigacija{
margin-top: 80px;
}
ul.tabs{
list-style: none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
ul.tabs li{
float: left;
padding:10px;
cursor: pointer;
}
ul.tabs li.active{
background: #efefef;
}
.tab{
display: none;
background: #efefef;
padding:20px;
}
.tab.active{
display: block;
}
.tabsContent {
clear: both;
display: block;
width: 100%;
}
you can use my solution with tabs on FIDDLE
seems you dont need js just use php:
<div class="vtabs">
<a href="#tab-order" <?php echo isset($labeltab) ? "class='selected'" : "" ; ?>>Order Details</a> // by default its class is selected
<a href="#tab-payment">Payment Details</a>
<a href="#tab-shipping">Shipping Details</a>
<a href="#tab-product">Products</a>
<a href="#tab-history">History</a>
<a href="#tab-label" <?php echo !isset($labeltab) ? "class='selected'" : "" ; ?>>HX Endicia Labels</a>
</div>
<div id="tab-order" class="vtabs-content" <?php echo isset($labeltab) ? "style='display: block;'" : "style='display: none;'" ; ?>>Tab1</div>
<div id="tab-payment" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab2</div>
<div id="tab-shipping" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab3</div>
<div id="tab-product" class="vtabs-content" style="display: none;">Tab4</div>
<div id="tab-label" class="vtabs-content" <?php echo !isset($labeltab) ? "style='display: block;'" : "style='display: none;'" ; ?>>Tab5</div>