Novice, One of the first things I want to remind you is the tabs macro is a provide macro, and it does a lot and suits most people. If you want to do a lot of customisation you should consider cloning the built in tabs macro and modify it as you see fit.
Perhaps an image to illustrate *"this weird space between the tabs and the tab area box and that is not the look I'm after"* would help. Remember the tabs macro is in a tiddler, within this tiddler you can control how things appear. You could wrap the whole tabs macro in a html div with a style or class applied. Or in some cases a div is allready present; see How I modified $:/ControlPanel <https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2FControlPanel> below,Then change the margin and padding values <div class="tc-control-panel" style="border: 5px solid green; padding: 50px ; margin: 20px;"> <<tabs "[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ControlPanel]!has[draft.of]]" "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Info">> </div> Tones On Monday, 9 November 2020 11:38:12 UTC+11, Tiddly Novice wrote: > > Actually, I take back my nevermind since I still can't figure out how to > control the background of the entire tab box area. Merely changinge the > background of the contents of any transcluded tiddlers seems to leave this > weird space between the tabs and the tab area box and that is not the look > I'm after. Also, how do I add a full border surrounding the area of the tab > box? (Please forgive me if the answer is obvious. The only GUI design class > I've ever had was "Intro to Visual Basic".) > > On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 1:08:24 PM UTC-8 Tiddly Novice wrote: > >> Nevermind, it turns out that the tiddler being transcluded by the tab is >> what controls the background colors. Which is actually really convenient. >> >> On Monday, November 2, 2020 at 7:04:07 PM UTC-8 Tiddly Novice wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to change the background color and border color for just >>> the contents area of a tabs widget? And for bonus points: is there a way to >>> change the contents area styles based on what tab is open or what tiddler >>> is being transcluded by the currently open tab? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5c20dbf7-9239-49ef-9bfb-ec700024c6e9o%40googlegroups.com.
