A container used to display tabbed pages of elements to the user. The tabcontrol should contain two children, the first a tabbox which contains the tabs and the second a tabpanel which contains the contents of the pages. This is a type of box that defaults to vertical orientation.

Attributes inherited from XUL Element

Determines the horizontal alignment of the children of the tabcontrol.

• left: The elements are aligned on their left edges.
• center: The elements are centered.
• right: The elements are aligned on their right edges.

In the tabcontrol is placed inside a horizontally oriented box, autostretch determines whether the tabcontrol stretches vertically to fit the given space. For vertically oriented boxes, determines whether the tabcontrol stretches horizontally to fit the given space. Stetching in the opoosite direction is controlled with the flex attribute.

• never: The tabcontrol is never stretched and is displayed at the size specified by its width and height attributes or by the CSS width and height properties.
• always: The tabcontrol stretches to fill the given space.

If the label of the tabcontrol is too small to fit in its given space, the text will be cropped on the side specified by the crop attribute. An ellipsis will be placed in place of the cropped text.

• left: The text will be cropped on its left side.
• right: The text will be cropped on its right side.
• center: The text will be cropped on both sides.
• none: The text will be not be cropped using an ellipsis. However, the text will simply be cut off if it too large. The side depends on the CSS text alignment.

If true, extra borders are drawn around the element and all its descendants. This can be used to determine orientation and where flexible elements are. If debug mode is enabled for a box, horizontal oriented boxes are displayed with a blue border and vertical boxes are displayed with a red border. The border above the element will be straight for non-flexible elements and wavy for flexible elements.

Indicates the flexibility of the tabcontrol. Flexible elements grow and shrink to fit their given space. The actual value is not relevant unless there are other flexible elements with-in the same container. Elements with larger flex values will grow more than elements with lower flex values, at the ratio determined by the two elements.

The height of the tabcontrol in pixels. It is recommended to use the CSS height property instead.

The index of the page of the tabcontrol that is currently displayed. The first page is 0.

For elements placed within a bulletinboard, specifies the position of the left edge of the tabcontrol.

Used to specify whether the children of the tabcontrol element are oriented horizontally or vertically.

• horizontal: Child elements of the tabcontrol are placed next to each other in a row in the order that they appear in the XUL source.
• vertical: Child elements of the tabcontrol are placed under to each other in a column in the order that they appear in the XUL source.

For elements placed within a bulletinboard, specifies the position of the top edge of the tabcontrol.

Determines the vertical alignment of the children of the tabcontrol.

• top: Elements are aligned by their top edges.
• middle: Elements are centered vertically.
• bottom: Elements are aligned by their bottom edges.
• baseline: Elements are aligned by their text baseline.

The width of the tabcontrol in pixels. It is recommended to use the CSS width property instead.

Properties and Methods inherited from XUL Element

The value of the selected tab. Assign a value to this property to modify the currently selected tab.