[How To] Add Tabbed Sections

7 years ago
16 February 2017
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Noah
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There have been multiple requests in our Community to achieve this functionality, and thanks to a bit of code and a lot of trial & error - we’re stoked to announce the newest addition to Tips and Scripts

Introducing: Tabbed Sections In Unbounce Landing Pages

Tabbed content areas are a great way to pack sections of content into a neat, concise area with a nice user experience.

You can see this in action (built in Unbounce) here:

Bear in mind, this functionality takes a bit of finesse, so if you’re brand new to using custom Javascript in your Unbounce landing pages - feel free to pop into the Community here if you need some troubleshooting.

How to Install in Unbounce

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This is not an official Unbounce feature. This functionality is based entirely on third party code, and has only been tested in limited applications. Since this isn’t a supported Unbounce feature, our support team will be unable to assist if things go awry. So if you are not comfortable with HTML, Javascript and CSS, please consider consulting an experienced developer.

First, go grab the latest scripts:

https://gist.github.com/noahub/fc3ed61f29d0176e2db53c7862033da9

Step 1.

Create a box element that will contain your tabbed content sub-navigation buttons.

Step 2.

Create a larger box element below your first box that will contain your tabbed content sub-navigation content.

Step 3.

Create your sub-navigation button elements and nest them in your first box in order.

Step 4.

Create a new box element, fill it with your desired content, nest it in the content container, then hide it. Create a second content box, fill with content, nest it in the container, then hide it., etc. etc

Step 5.

Select your first button, add the ID of the first content box to the ‘Go to URL’ field. Repeat for all subsequent buttons/boxes.

Step 6.

Copy the javascript in ‘tabbed_section.js’ and paste in your Javascripts section.

Step 7.

Update the javascript with your button and content box element IDs.

Step 8.

Copy the CSS in ‘tabbed_section.css’ and paste in your Stylesheets section.

Step 9.

Update the colors in the CSS snippet to reflect the desired appearance of your ‘active’ tab

You’re done! Now sit back and let the conversions roll in…

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Hi @Noah! We applied this to one of our pages (pricing pages). How can we set up one of the options to display by default? For example, as soon as a user lands in the page it appears the fees in USD and the user can change this to see the rest of the options. Here’s the page: https://www.ethosdata.com/dataroom-pricing/

Awesome , Noah!

How do I insert a transaction slide effect between active buttons? To understand each other better, something like that (see the last section “FIND OUT MORE” at the bottom of the page, before the footer): https://mailbakery.com/

@Noah, The question has come up about mobile responsiveness on this. I’m tearing my hair out trying to format this for mobile. It seems even your demo page doesn’t work on mobile (http://landingpage.noahmatsell.ca/tab-content/)

Do you have any suggestions? As soon as I get it looking good on one view width it looks like crap on another device size. I’m tempted to drop Unbounce and go back to full custom so I don’t have to deal with the limitations of a CMS.

Thoughts?

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Noah
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5 years ago
30 June 2018

Hey @InvesTechs, it looks like I hadn’t enabled the mobile version of my page. After a little bit of resizing and element scaling, I was able to get the mobile version of this solution working. No other changes were needed.

Something I found helpful when resizing for mobile was revealing a nested content section (from step 4) and working on them one at a time.

My primary issue for this feature, along with many other in Unbounce, was stretching the section to be the full width of the screen. Unbounce doesn’t seem to allow full-bleed elements, which seems a bit dated.

My solution was writing media queries for every standard device width on the market (took a full day) just to make it look good on mobile. For those looking to do the same this resource was instrumental: http://screensiz.es/

You can see the implementation at https://template.investechs.com/growth-stage. I’ll continue to refine as I implement this template for clients.

Hi,

In my landing page we have a big blank spot, the first box doesn’t show up. Anything I should be adding to the code so that the first box shows up? Thanks!

Could you provide a link to your lp? It’ll help pinpoint what might be missing!

@Noah - I would like to incorporate 2 tabbed sections in one landing page.
I tried altering the code, which didn’t really help.
Any assistance would be appreciated!

Thanks so much Noah!

This is what really helped!!! Not manual, not even copying of the code, but just remake of your page(file). Thanks a lot!!!

Any updates on featuring multiple sections with tabbed content? The code works great, but I’d like to be able to use tabbed content in different sections on the same page.

I see others have asked about being able to use this script on multiple sections on the same page. I’d also like to be able to do that. Has anyone been able to achieve this yet? Are there plans to make it happen? Thanks so much. Tiffany

Hi @bmmeijer did you ever find out how to remove the effect when changing tabs?

Hi! Having trouble getting this to function properly. Does anyone have an unbounce page they can download and send me where this actually works? Want to compare to what i’m doing. Thanks!

Noah commented it shortly after posting, here’s the link I used to download! 🙂

Has anyone been able to get this working for two different sections?

@langtry I couldn’t without the file itself - I rebuilt my page inside Noah’s template instead, as when I copied the script over to my page it wouldn’t work for some reason. I also got no response when I messaged for help!

I couldn’t make it work just following the instructions, but I took a very close look at Noah’s Unbounce Demo Tabs page, posted in the comments.

Here are a few instructions missing from the official instructions:

The “buttons box” should be in one SECTION and the “content box” should be in another SECTION just below the “buttons box” section. If they are not in different sections it won’t work!
Set the placement of the Javascript provided to “Before body end tag”.
In the Javascript you have to enter the ID of the “buttons box” and of the “content box” NOT the ID of any individual button or content:
var navButtons = $(’#lp-pom-box-XXX a’); replace XXX with you buttons box ID
var contentBoxes = $(’#lp-pom-box-XXX .lp-pom-box’); replace XXX with your content box ID
You can find the ID of the boxes and buttons at the bottom of the “properties” tab.

Hi, I tried following instructions but it doesn’t work for me. Can someone please take a look at my page and let me know what I did wrong? https://www.321ignition.com/partners/

If this doesn’t work for you it might be that you don’t have jQuery added to your Scripts.

To fix this add a new script in Javascripts, call it jQuery, place it in Head and here is the script content:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Thank you for this. This should be in the main post. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what was wrong and I was following the diy step by step!

So I’m having issues getting this to work, I’ve followed all the instructions and I’m unable to get it to work. Also, if I want to have more than one button and content box what part of the Jscript do I copy and change with the button and box IDs? Someone please help.

Hey guys!

Thanks for the work you are doing here and tabbed sections really make the website stand out and look unique.

I made a video on YouTube in my Unbounce playlist showing how to set this up…

Here is the link for those who want to see how to do this from start to finish:

Let me know if you have any questions!!

Ivan

hello there i have followed your tutorial for adding tabbed sections, i had link to the good id for my navigation bar but it’s still not working it stuck on the first section without moving to the others, Any ideas ?

Any insights on how to change the animation that occurs when switching between tabbed items? Would prefer no animation at all over what we get for free with what you provided. Thanks!