Vue UI Components Documentation

Vue Tabs Component

The Tabs component for Vue is breaking the content into multiple sections. You can populate it from 'LI' elements for the tab titles and 'DIV' elements for tab contents.

Prerequisites

Refer to Vue Getting Started before you start with this help topic.

Configuration

After you have created your App.vue file, here is how you should structure it:

The Tabs component for Vue requires the following import:

import JqxTabs from 'jqwidgets-scripts/jqwidgets-vue/vue_jqxtabs.vue';

Add the jqxTabs component to the components section of the the Vue class:

 components: {
    JqxTabs
 },

Template

The App.vue has a <template> structural tag where we determine the application structure. There we will also set the tags for the new components - <JqxTabs/> 

<template>
    <jqxTabs :width="width" :height="height" 
             :position="position" :animationType="animationType">
        <ul>
            <li>Node.js</li>
            <li>JavaServer Pages</li>
        </ul>
        <div>
            Node.js is an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8. It
            is intended for writing scalable network programs such as web servers. It was created
            by Ryan Dahl in 2009, and its growth is sponsored by Joyent, which employs Dahl.
            Similar environments written in other programming languages include Twisted for
            Python, Perl Object Environment for Perl, libevent for C and EventMachine for Ruby.
            Unlike most JavaScript, it is not executed in a web browser, but is instead a form
            of server-side JavaScript. Node.js implements some CommonJS specifications. Node.js
            includes a REPL environment for interactive testing.
        </div>
        <div>
            JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java technology that helps software developers serve
            dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types. Released
            in 1999 as Sun's answer to ASP and PHP,:citation needed JSP was designed to address
            the perception that the Java programming environment didn't provide developers with
            enough support for the Web. To deploy and run, a compatible web server with servlet
            container is required. The Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications
            from Sun Microsystems and the JCP (Java Community Process) must both be met by the
            container.
        </div>
    </jqxTabs>
</template>

Properties

The properties of the <JqxTabs/> component are defined in the data member of the Vue class. We should put them in the return object of the data function:


Events

The events in Vue are set as an attribute with @ prefix, for example: 

<jqxTabs @tabclick="onTabClick()"
         :width="width" :height="height"
         :position="position" :animationType="animationType">
    <ul>
        <li>Node.js</li>
        <li>JavaServer Pages</li>
    </ul>
    <div>
        Node.js is an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8. It
        is intended for writing scalable network programs such as web servers. It was created
        by Ryan Dahl in 2009, and its growth is sponsored by Joyent, which employs Dahl.
        Similar environments written in other programming languages include Twisted for
        Python, Perl Object Environment for Perl, libevent for C and EventMachine for Ruby.
        Unlike most JavaScript, it is not executed in a web browser, but is instead a form
        of server-side JavaScript. Node.js implements some CommonJS specifications. Node.js
        includes a REPL environment for interactive testing.
    </div>
    <div>
        JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java technology that helps software developers serve
        dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types. Released
        in 1999 as Sun's answer to ASP and PHP,:citation needed JSP was designed to address
        the perception that the Java programming environment didn't provide developers with
        enough support for the Web. To deploy and run, a compatible web server with servlet
        container is required. The Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications
        from Sun Microsystems and the JCP (Java Community Process) must both be met by the
        container.
    </div>
</jqxTabs>

All events that are bound to a component are implemented in the methods member of the Vue class.


Methods

To use a component's method we should have its reference. In Vue we refer to a component by the special $refs property. Before that we need to add the desired name reference to that component:

<JqxTabs ref="tabs"></JqxTabs>

Here how you can use a component's method:

this.$refs.tabs.focus();

If we want to add additional methods we should also implement them in the methods member.

In case we need to do some precalculation or something else before the components are rendered, we should use the beforeCreate member. It depends on the case.

If you have followed the above steps, you App.vue file would look like this:

App.vue:

Tabs Example

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