Configure your tabs
Set style, add tabs, then click Generate// build keyboard-friendly tab components instantly
Generate accessible HTML tab components with keyboard navigation, ARIA roles, and clean CSS. No dependencies required — free browser-based tool.
Configure your tabs
Set style, add tabs, then click GeneratePick a tab style, orientation, and accent color. Add your tab names and content.
Click Generate Code to build accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript output.
Copy each block separately and drop into your project. No dependencies required.
The Tabs Generator creates fully accessible tab components following the WAI-ARIA Tabs Pattern. Each generated component includes proper role="tablist", role="tab", and role="tabpanel" markup, along with keyboard navigation (Arrow keys, Home, End) baked in — no extra libraries needed.
Yes. The generator follows the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide for the Tabs Pattern. Every output includes role="tablist", role="tab", aria-selected, aria-controls, and role="tabpanel" attributes. Keyboard navigation uses Arrow keys, Home, and End.
No. The generated JavaScript is plain vanilla JS with zero dependencies. You can drop the code directly into any HTML page or framework without installing anything extra.
When enabled, the generated JS stores the last-active tab index in localStorage. On page reload, the user's chosen tab is automatically restored — useful for settings panels and documentation pages.
When enabled, clicking a tab updates the browser URL hash (e.g. #tab-overview). Sharing the URL will open directly to that tab. This also allows linking to a specific tab from another page.
Absolutely. Select the Vertical orientation to generate a flexbox layout with the tablist on the left and panel on the right — ideal for admin dashboards, sidebars, or settings screens.
The generated HTML includes placeholder content inside each role="tabpanel" div. Replace the placeholder text with your own HTML content, components, images, or anything else you need.
A tabs generator is an online tool that builds HTML tab components with all the structural markup, styling, and JavaScript logic already wired together. Instead of writing tab code from scratch every time — and risking forgetting ARIA attributes or keyboard handlers — you configure a few options and get production-ready code in seconds.
This tool generates tabs that conform to the WAI-ARIA Tabs Pattern, the accessibility standard maintained by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. Getting this right from the start means your interface works for keyboard users, screen reader users, and everyone else.
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Tabs are one of the most commonly misimplemented UI patterns on the web. A common mistake is building tabs with a list of links and toggling display: none — which works visually but completely breaks screen reader navigation. The correct approach uses specific ARIA roles so that assistive technologies understand the relationship between tab buttons and their corresponding panels.
The proper roles are:
According to the ARIA specification, tab components should implement a specific keyboard interaction model:
The generated JavaScript from this tool implements all of these interactions correctly, following the "automatic activation" model where arrow key focus also activates the panel immediately — the most common pattern for desktop interfaces.
This generator offers four visual styles, each suited to different design contexts:
Horizontal tabs (the default) place the tablist above the panel — the standard layout for most web interfaces. Vertical tabs place the tablist in a left-hand column alongside the panel, which works well for:
The vertical layout is generated using CSS flexbox with a fixed-width tablist column and a flex-growing panel area.
When the deep-link option is enabled, the generated JavaScript reads the URL hash on page load and activates the matching tab automatically. It also updates the hash when the user switches tabs, making each tab bookmarkable and shareable. This pattern is particularly useful for documentation sites, product comparison pages, and any page where users may want to link directly to a specific section.
With the "remember active tab" option, the tab index is stored in localStorage under a key derived from the tablist ID. This is a small but high-impact UX improvement for settings panels and multi-step forms, where users return to the same page frequently and expect to land back where they left off.
The generated output is split into three separate blocks — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — so you can integrate each where it belongs in your project:
<style> blockBecause the JavaScript uses an immediately-invoked initialization pattern, multiple independent tab components can coexist on the same page without any naming conflicts.