Shadcn Tabs: React Tabs Component Examples
The shadcn tabs component organizes content into layered panels where only one is visible at a time, the standard pattern for packing related views into one region. As a react tabs component it combines an accessible primitive with Tailwind CSS styling, giving you roving keyboard focus and correct aria wiring while the tab list itself can look like anything from underlined text to segmented pills.
Fifteen tabs examples are gathered on this page for copy and paste use, one of the larger variant sets in the collection. The range covers underline and pill styles, tabs with icons and badges, vertical orientations, full-width lists, a horizontal scrollable tab list for overflow, and card-integrated layouts, all in TypeScript for Next.js and other React stacks.
What you get
- Multiple visual styles: Underline, pill, and segmented treatments so tabs can match different interface densities.
- Icons and badges: Tab triggers with leading icons and count badges for inbox style navigation.
- Vertical tabs: Side-mounted tab lists for settings pages with many sections.
- Scrollable overflow: A horizontal scrollable tab list that handles more tabs than the viewport can show.
- Card integration: Tabs embedded in card headers so one surface hosts several related views.
Implementation tips
- Sync with the URL: Drive the active tab from a search param so tab state survives refreshes and can be shared as a link.
- Keep triggers and content paired: Match each trigger value to exactly one content value, and generate both from the same array to avoid drift.
- Lazy render heavy panels: Mount expensive tab content only after first activation so the initial view stays fast.
- Cap the tab count: Past five or six tabs, consider vertical orientation, the scrollable variant, or restructuring into separate pages.
- Test keyboard behavior: Arrow keys should move through triggers and Tab should jump into the active panel, which the primitive handles if you keep its structure intact.
Where it fits in a dashboard
Tabs are how dashboards keep detail pages to a single URL. A customer record splits into overview, orders, invoices, and activity. A settings area divides into profile, security, notifications, and billing. Analytics screens tab between time ranges or data views without navigating away.
The specialized variants match specific layouts. Vertical tabs suit settings pages with long section lists, badge tabs fit inboxes and queues where counts matter, and the scrollable variant rescues designs where the tab set grows with user data.
Related components and patterns
Tabs sit in a family of view-switching patterns. A Toggle Group is the lighter choice when switching a control setting rather than swapping panels, a Navigation Menu handles links that change routes, and an Accordion shows multiple sections at once when comparison matters.
Several examples here embed tabs in a Card header, and tabbed tables pair naturally with the Data Table component. Full tabbed screens are available among the Next.js dashboards.
Library support
The examples follow the shadcn/ui Tabs docs and rest on the Radix UI Tabs primitive, which implements the tablist pattern with roving tabindex, automatic or manual activation, and both orientations.
Projects on the Base UI stack can use the equivalent Base UI Tabs component, which follows the same accessibility contract, so the Tailwind CSS styling from these fifteen variants carries across with minimal edits.