meteor Blaze User Interface Recipes (Bootstrap; No jQuery) Tabbed Workflow

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Example

Document Object Model
Start by creating your tabs and panes in your Object Model...

<template name="samplePage">
  <div id="samplePage" class="page">
    <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
      <li id="firstPanelTab"><a href="#firstPanel">First</a></li>
      <li id="secondPanelTab"><a href="#secondPanel">Second</a></li>
    </ul>

    <div id="firstPanel" class="{{firstPanelVisibility}}">
      {{> firstPanel }}
    </div>
    <div id="secondPanel" class="{{secondPanelVisibility}}">
      {{> secondPanel }}
    </div>
  </div>
</template>

Javascript

// this variable controls which tab is displayed and associated application state
Session.setDefault('selectedPanel', 1);

Template.name.helpers({
  firstPanelVisibility: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 1){
      return "visible";
    }else{
      return "hidden";
    }
  },
  secondPanelVisibility: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 2){
      return "visible";
    }else{
      return "hidden";
    }
  },
  thirdPanelVisibility: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 3){
      return "visible";
    }else{
      return "hidden";
    }
  },
  firstPanelActive: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 1){
      return "active panel-tab";
    }else{
      return "panel-tab";
    }
  },
  secondPanelActive: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 2){
      return "active panel-tab";
    }else{
      return "panel-tab";
    }
  },
  thirdPanelActive: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 3){
      return "active panel-tab";
    }else{
      return "panel-tab";
    }
  }
});

Styling

.visible {
  display: block;
  visibility: visible;
}
.hidden {
  display: none;
  visibility: hidden;
}

Active Tab For added effect, you can extend this pattern by injecting classes to indicate the active tab.

<li id="firstPanelTab" class="{{firstPanelActive}}"><a href="#firstPanel">First</a></li>
<li id="secondPanelTab" class="{{secondPanelActive}}"><a href="#secondPanel">Second</a></li>
Template.firstPanel.helpers({
  firstPanelActive: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 1){
      return "active";
    }else{
      return "";
    }
  },
  secondPanelActive: function (){
    if(Session.get('selectedPanel') === 2){
      return "active";
    }else{
      return "";
    }
  },
});



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