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Tabs

The Tabs control is used for navigating frequently accessed, distinct content categories. Tabs allow for navigation between two or more content views and relies on text headers to articulate the different sections of content.

Examples​

Live example

Tabs​

import flet as ft

def main(page: ft.Page):

    t = ft.Tabs(
        selected_index=1,
        animation_duration=300,
        tabs=[
            ft.Tab(
                text="Tab 1",
                content=ft.Container(
                    content=ft.Text("This is Tab 1"), alignment=ft.alignment.center
                ),
            ),
            ft.Tab(
                tab_content=ft.Icon(ft.icons.SEARCH),
                content=ft.Text("This is Tab 2"),
            ),
            ft.Tab(
                text="Tab 3",
                icon=ft.icons.SETTINGS,
                content=ft.Text("This is Tab 3"),
            ),
        ],
        expand=1,
    )

    page.add(t)

ft.app(target=main)

Tabs properties​

animation_duration​

Duration of animation in milliseconds of swtiching between tabs. Default is 50.

divider_color​

The color of the divider.

indicator_border_radius​

The radius of the indicator's corners.

indicator_border_side​

The color and weight of the horizontal line drawn below the selected tab.

indicator_color​

The color of the line that appears below the selected tab.

indicator_padding​

Locates the selected tab's underline relative to the tab's boundary. The indicator_tab_size property can be used to define the tab indicator's bounds in terms of its (centered) tab widget with False, or the entire tab with True.

indicator_tab_size​

True for indicator to take entire tab.

label_color​

The color of selected tab labels.

overlay_color​

Defines the ink response focus, hover, and splash colors. If specified, it is resolved against one of MaterialState.FOCUSED, MaterialState.HOVERED, and MaterialState.PRESSED.

selected_index​

The index of currently selected tab.

scrollable​

Whether this tab bar can be scrolled horizontally.

If scrollable is True, then each tab is as wide as needed for its label and the entire Tabs controls is scrollable. Otherwise each tab gets an equal share of the available space.

tabs​

A list of Tab controls.

unselected_label_color​

The color of unselected tab labels.

Tabs events​

on_change​

Fires when selected_index changes.

Tab properties​

content​

A Control to display below the Tab when it is selected.

icon​

An icon to display on the left of Tab text.

tab_content​

A Control representing custom tab content replacing text and icon.

text​

Tab's display name.