My humble recommendation would be navigation (links) and subnavigation (links),
since tab or no, that's what they are and do, right?

It's what I call such elements in most documentation since it allows
flexibility of use
if the design turns away from presenting them as tabs.

Scott

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Jason Zietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything
> related in the archives.  I checked my Designing Interfaces book as well and
> came up empty, so now I seek the guidance of the collective.
>
> http://anxiousplanet.com/ixda/SubmenuOrSubnav.gif
>
> What would you call "Current Design" in this example?  Clearly "Design" is a
> tab, but "Current Design" and its siblings don't look like tabs, though they
> do *behave* like tabs.  I started calling them "subtabs" but then switched
> to "submenus" and now I can't decide between either or something else
> altogether.
>
> Thanks!
>
> jason


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