Hi,
I may be misunderstanding your need, but you could simply write out all of you tab's display elements initially set to 'display:none'. Set a initial focus tab (some variable sent from the server written to a JS var to be used by the client) and set it's elements set to display:block or display:inline where appropriate. On click of another tab set the current tab's elements to display:none and the new focus to display:block/inline where appropriate.
This is what we do for our CMS. You can see some layout L&Fs at: http://www.livestoryboard.com/Products/Screen_shots.html
Is this the kind of thing you are talking about?
No, no : this is exactly what I did to swith the tabs. What I'm looking for is a way to avoid the page layout to be recomputed when the user switches to another tab (they don't fill the whole screen).
Currently, the layout is recomputed to match the size of the selected tab content. I'd like the tab panel to have the size largest tab content so that its size doesn't change when we navigate through the tabs.
But as Peter said, there doesn't seem to be a solution for this other than either dynamically changing the CSS (complicated solution) or imposing a fixed size.
Sylvain
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