TabView

You can group multiple Tab elements within a TabView element to create a tab-based navigation system.

Create a TabView

You can create a TabView with UI(User Interface) Allows a user to interact with your application. Unity currently supports three UI systems. More info
See in Glossary Builder, UXML, or C#.

To create a TabView with C#, create a new instance of the TabView object and then add Tab elements to it. For example:

var tabView = new TabView("Title text");
var tab1 = new Tab("Tab 1");
var tab2 = new Tab("Tab 2");
var tab3 = new Tab("Tab 3");
tabView.Add(tab1);
tabView.Add(tab2);
tabView.Add(tab3);

Make tabs reorderable

To make tabs reorderable with a TabView, set the reorderable property to true.

To persist the tab order for a TabView in the Editor UI, assign a unique view-data-key to both the TabView and its contained Tab elements. The view-data-key stores the state of the tabs. If you left the view-data-key empty, the tab state doesn’t persist when the document is reloaded. for more information, refer to View data persistence.

Examples

The following UXML example creates a TabView with Tabs:

<UXML xmlns="UnityEngine.UIElements" xmlns:uie="UnityEditor.UIElements">
    <TabView>
       <Tab label="UXML Tab A">
           <Label text="UXML tab: This is some content for the first Tab." />
       </Tab>
       <Tab label="UXML Tab B">
           <Label text="UXML tab: This is some content for the second Tab." />
       </Tab>
    </TabView>
</UXML>

The following C# example illustrates some of the customizable functionalities of the TabView and its Tabs:

/// <sample>
// Create a TabView with Tabs that only contains a label.
var csharpTabViewWithLabels = new TabView() { style = { marginTop = 15 } }; // marginTop not required, only for demonstration purposes.
var tabOne = new Tab("One");
tabOne.Add(new Label("Tab with labels only: This is some content for the first Tab.") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpTabViewWithLabels.Add(tabOne);
var tabTwo = new Tab("Two");
tabTwo.Add(new Label("Tab with labels only: This is some content for the second Tab.") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpTabViewWithLabels.Add(tabTwo);
container.Add(csharpTabViewWithLabels);

// Create a TabView with Tabs that only contains an icon.
var csharpTabViewWithIcons = new TabView() { style = { marginTop = 15 } }; // marginTop not required, only for demonstration purposes.
var tabIconConnect = new Tab(EditorGUIUtility.FindTexture("CloudConnect"));
tabIconConnect.Add(new Label("Tab with icons only: This is some content for the first Tab.") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpTabViewWithIcons.Add(tabIconConnect);
var tabIconStore = new Tab(EditorGUIUtility.FindTexture("Asset Store"));
tabIconStore.Add(new Label("Tab with icons only: This is some content for the second Tab.") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpTabViewWithIcons.Add(tabIconStore);
container.Add(csharpTabViewWithIcons);

// Create a TabView with Tabs that only contains an icon and a label.
var csharpTabViewWithIconsAndLabels = new TabView() { style = { marginTop = 15 } }; // marginTop not required, only for demonstration purposes.
var tabConnect = new Tab("Connect", EditorGUIUtility.FindTexture("CloudConnect"));
tabConnect.Add(new Label("Tab with an icon and a labels: This is some content for the first Tab.") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpTabViewWithIconsAndLabels.Add(tabConnect);
var tabStore = new Tab("Store", EditorGUIUtility.FindTexture("Asset Store"));
tabStore.Add(new Label("Tab with an icon and a labels: This is some content for the second Tab.") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpTabViewWithIconsAndLabels.Add(tabStore);
container.Add(csharpTabViewWithIconsAndLabels);

// Create a TabView that allows re-ordering of the tabs.
var csharpReorderableTabView = new TabView() { reorderable = true, style = { marginTop = 10 } }; // marginTop not required, only for demonstration purposes.
var tabA = new Tab("Tab A");
tabA.Add(new Label("Reorderable tabs: This is some content for Tab A") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpReorderableTabView.Add(tabA);
var tabB = new Tab("Tab B");
tabB.Add(new Label("Reorderable tabs: This is some content for Tab B") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpReorderableTabView.Add(tabB);
var tabC = new Tab("Tab C");
tabC.Add(new Label("Reorderable tabs: This is some content for Tab C") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
csharpReorderableTabView.Add(tabC);
container.Add(csharpReorderableTabView);

// Create a TabView with closeable tabs.
var closeTabInfoLabel = new Label($"Last tab closed: None");
void UpdateLabel(string newLabel) => closeTabInfoLabel.text = $"Last tab closed: {newLabel}";
var cSharpCloseableTabs = new TabView() { style = { marginTop = 10 } }; // marginTop not required, only for demonstration purposes.
var closeableTabA = new Tab("Title A") { closeable = true };
closeableTabA.closed += (tab) => { UpdateLabel(tab.label); };
closeableTabA.Add(new Label("Closeable tabs: This is some content for Tab A") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
cSharpCloseableTabs.Add(closeableTabA);
var closeableTabB = new Tab("Title B") { closeable = true };
closeableTabB.closed += (tab) => { UpdateLabel(tab.label); };
closeableTabB.Add(new Label("Closeable tabs: This is some content for Tab B") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
cSharpCloseableTabs.Add(closeableTabB);
var closeableTabC = new Tab("Title C") { closeable = true };
closeableTabC.closed += (tab) => { UpdateLabel(tab.label); };
closeableTabC.Add(new Label("Closeable tabs: This is some content for Tab C") { style = { marginTop = 10 } });
cSharpCloseableTabs.Add(closeableTabC);
container.Add(cSharpCloseableTabs);
container.Add(closeTabInfoLabel);

// Create a TabView and apply custom styling to specific areas of their tabs.
var csharpCustomStyledTabView = new TabView() { style = { marginTop = 15 }, classList = { "some-styled-class" }}; // marginTop not required, only for demonstration purposes.
var customStyledTabOne = new Tab("One");
customStyledTabOne.Add(new Label("Custom styled tabs: This is some content for the first Tab."));
csharpCustomStyledTabView.Add(customStyledTabOne);
var customStyledTabTwo = new Tab("Two");
customStyledTabTwo.Add(new Label("Custom styled tabs: This is some content for the second Tab."));
csharpCustomStyledTabView.Add(customStyledTabTwo);
container.Add(csharpCustomStyledTabView);
/// </sample>

To try this example live in Unity, go to Window > UI Toolkit > Samples.

For more examples, refer to the following:

-Create a tabbed menu.

C# base class and namespace

C# class: TabView
Namespace: UnityEngine.UIElements
Base class: VisualElement

Member UXML attributes

This element has the following member attributes:

Inherited UXML attributes

This element inherits the following attributes from its base class:

This element also inherits the following attributes from VisualElement:

USS classes

The following table lists all the C# public property names and their related USS selector.

You can also use the Matching Selectors section in the Inspector or the UI Toolkit Debugger to see which USS selectors affect the components of the VisualElement at every level of its hierarchy.

Additional resources

• Tab