About Horizontal Tab Navigation
When a site's header has tabs, they function as key navigation for the site, with drop-down menus containing links that belong under each tab's topic.
- In Stanford Medicine sites, tabs generally represent all of the most important site topics and can range from 4 or 5 to a maximum of 10 (very small ones!)
- Top-level subsites and pages that cover topics considered school-wide in scope, including the school's Education, Research, Patient Care and Community home pages, Departments & Institutes site map pages, and Administration, share the same tabs and menus across all sites.
Changing the Tabs and/or Tab Menus on Your Site
You cannot edit your tabs or their menus directly, in either Contribute or Dreamweaver. Instead, use the Web Help form to request changes of this type. Adding or changing items in the menus is usually accomplished within a work day or so.
Adding or changing the number, order or wording of the red tabs themselves requires prototyping, and so takes longer. It's helpful if you are prepared with a site map or outline diagramming your tabs and their menus as navigation for your entire site. Tab changes should also be requested from Web Help.
About breadcrumbs links and highlighted tabs
Pages that are associated with one particular tab topic should display that tab highlighted, to let the user know this page is part of that topic.
Tab highlights result from Breadcrumbs settings. The breadcrumbs include file contains a snippet of JavaScript that triggers the highlight.
This is why, whenever you create a new page, you should do so by duplicating a page that already displays the tab highlight appropriate for the page.
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