Animated Tabs

Tabs to switch content, click on a tab to check background animation.

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Product Tab

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Playground tab

Content tab

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Installation

Install dependencies

npm i motion clsx tailwind-merge

Add util file

lib/utils.ts

import { ClassValue, clsx } from "clsx";
import { twMerge } from "tailwind-merge";
 
export function cn(...inputs: ClassValue[]) {
  return twMerge(clsx(inputs));
}

Copy the source code

components/ui/tabs.tsx

"use client";
 
import { useState } from "react";
import { motion } from "motion/react";
import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 
type Tab = {
  title: string;
  value: string;
  content?: string | React.ReactNode | any;
};
 
export const Tabs = ({
  tabs: propTabs,
  containerClassName,
  activeTabClassName,
  tabClassName,
  contentClassName,
}: {
  tabs: Tab[];
  containerClassName?: string;
  activeTabClassName?: string;
  tabClassName?: string;
  contentClassName?: string;
}) => {
  const [active, setActive] = useState<Tab>(propTabs[0]);
  const [tabs, setTabs] = useState<Tab[]>(propTabs);
 
  const moveSelectedTabToTop = (idx: number) => {
    const newTabs = [...propTabs];
    const selectedTab = newTabs.splice(idx, 1);
    newTabs.unshift(selectedTab[0]);
    setTabs(newTabs);
    setActive(newTabs[0]);
  };
 
  const [hovering, setHovering] = useState(false);
 
  return (
    <>
      <div
        className={cn(
          "flex flex-row items-center justify-start [perspective:1000px] relative overflow-auto sm:overflow-visible no-visible-scrollbar max-w-full w-full",
          containerClassName
        )}
      >
        {propTabs.map((tab, idx) => (
          <button
            key={tab.title}
            onClick={() => {
              moveSelectedTabToTop(idx);
            }}
            onMouseEnter={() => setHovering(true)}
            onMouseLeave={() => setHovering(false)}
            className={cn("relative px-4 py-2 rounded-full", tabClassName)}
            style={{
              transformStyle: "preserve-3d",
            }}
          >
            {active.value === tab.value && (
              <motion.div
                layoutId="clickedbutton"
                transition={{ type: "spring", bounce: 0.3, duration: 0.6 }}
                className={cn(
                  "absolute inset-0 bg-gray-200 dark:bg-zinc-800 rounded-full ",
                  activeTabClassName
                )}
              />
            )}
 
            <span className="relative block text-black dark:text-white">
              {tab.title}
            </span>
          </button>
        ))}
      </div>
      <FadeInDiv
        tabs={tabs}
        active={active}
        key={active.value}
        hovering={hovering}
        className={cn("mt-32", contentClassName)}
      />
    </>
  );
};
 
export const FadeInDiv = ({
  className,
  tabs,
  hovering,
}: {
  className?: string;
  key?: string;
  tabs: Tab[];
  active: Tab;
  hovering?: boolean;
}) => {
  const isActive = (tab: Tab) => {
    return tab.value === tabs[0].value;
  };
  return (
    <div className="relative w-full h-full">
      {tabs.map((tab, idx) => (
        <motion.div
          key={tab.value}
          layoutId={tab.value}
          style={{
            scale: 1 - idx * 0.1,
            top: hovering ? idx * -50 : 0,
            zIndex: -idx,
            opacity: idx < 3 ? 1 - idx * 0.1 : 0,
          }}
          animate={{
            y: isActive(tab) ? [0, 40, 0] : 0,
          }}
          className={cn("w-full h-full absolute top-0 left-0", className)}
        >
          {tab.content}
        </motion.div>
      ))}
    </div>
  );
};

Copy to `globals.css` to hide scrollbar (optional)

globals.css

.no-visible-scrollbar {
  scrollbar-width: none;
  -ms-overflow-style: none;
  -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}
 
.no-visible-scrollbar::-webkit-scrollbar {
  display: none;
}

Props

Prop	Type	Description
`tabs`	Tab[]	An array of Tab objects. Each Tab object has title, value, and content properties.
`containerClassName`	string	Optional. CSS class name for the container div.
`activeTabClassName`	string	Optional. CSS class name for the active tab.
`tabClassName`	string	Optional. CSS class name for the tab.
`contentClassName`	string	Optional. CSS class name for the content div.

FadeInDiv Component

Prop	Type	Description
`className`	string	Optional. CSS class name for the FadeInDiv.
`tabs`	Tab[]	An array of Tab objects. Each Tab object has title, value, and content properties.
`active`	Tab	The currently active Tab object.
`hovering`	boolean	Optional. A boolean indicating whether the mouse is hovering over the component.

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