Tabs

Best practice

Tips

Make sure that the tabs in a group contain parallel types of information about a single topic. Also make sure you’ve grouped the information on each tab in ways that make sense to your site visitors, and you’ve labeled each tab using terms that are familiar to your visitors.

If site visitors are likely to want to compare two types of information, think very carefully before hiding the content in a tab. In most cases, your visitors would rather not have to click to see one set of content and then another.

Consider using tabs when…

• You have two or more closely related headings accompanied by a medium amount of detailed content.
• The content hidden in the tabs isn’t very short or very long or especially important for your site visitors.

Don’t use tabs when…

• You have a only single heading and its related content to put into a tab.
• The content you want to hide in a tab is very short.
• The content you want to hide in a tab is very long.

How to create tabs

The tab shortcode allows you to group related content into blocks organized by up to 5 tabs. The shortcode requires a Heading 4 (H4) title and any type of content.

1. Select tab.
2. Select the number of tabs to include from the dropdown list.
3. The shortcode appears in the text editor.
4. Insert your cursor between the first set of shortcode bookends.
5. Enter Heading 4 (H4) text for the tab label or title.
6. Insert text and/or other elements for tab content.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 for each tab.

Check these things if your tabs aren’t behaving:

• All shortcode brackets and slashes are present
• Tab labels are in Heading 4 (H4) format

You can always contact the WCM Support Team with questions.