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<TabView> is a UI component that shows content grouped into tabs and lets users switch between them.

xml
<TabView>
  <TabViewItem title="First">
    <Label text="First Tab Content" textAlignment="center" verticalAlignment="center" />
  </TabViewItem>
  <TabViewItem title="Second">
    <Label text="Second Tab Content" textAlignment="center" verticalAlignment="center" />
  </TabViewItem>
  <TabViewItem title="Third">
    <Label text="Third Tab Content" textAlignment="center" verticalAlignment="center" />
  </TabViewItem>
</TabView>

Props

selectedIndex

ts
selectedIndex: number

Gets or sets the currently selected tab.

Defaults to 0.

tabTextColor

xml
tabTextColor: Color

Gets or sets the text color of the tab titles.

Corresponding CSS property:

css
.tab-view {
  tab-text-color: #fff;
}

See Color.

tabTextFontSize

ts
tabTextFontSize: number

Gets or sets the font size of the tab titles.

Corresponding CSS property:

css
.tab-view {
  tab-text-font-size: 24;
}

tabBackgroundColor

ts
tabBackgroundColor: Color

Sets the background color of the tabs.

Corresponding CSS property:

css
.tab-view {
  tab-background-color: #3d5a80;
}

See Color.

androidSelectedTabHighlightColor

ts
androidSelectedTabHighlightColor: Color

Sets the underline color of the tabs. Android only.

Corresponding CSS property:

css
.tab-view {
   android-selected-tab-highlight-color:: #3d5a80;
}

See Color.

androidTabsPosition

ts
androidTabsPosition: 'top' | 'bottom'

Sets the position of the tabs. Android only.

Defaults to top.

iosIconRenderingMode

ts
iosIconRenderingMode: 'automatic' | 'alwaysOriginal' | 'alwaysTemplate'

Gets or sets the icon rendering mode on iOS. iOS only.

Defaults to automatic.

See UIImage.RenderingMode.

...Inherited

For additional inherited properties, refer to the API Reference.

TabViewItem Props

title

ts
title: string

Gets or sets the title of the tab strip entry.

textTransform

ts
textTransform: TextTransformType // "initial" | "none" | "capitalize" | "uppercase" | "lowercase"

Gets or sets the text transform.

See TextTransformType.

Defaults to initial.

iconSource

ts
iconSource: string

Gets or sets the icon source of the tab strip entry.

Supported paths are res://, font:// or an absolute path (eg. ~/assets/image.png).

See Image for details on the different paths.

Events

selectedIndexChange

ts
on('selectedIndexChanged', (args: EventData) => {
  const tabView = args.object as TabView
  console.log('TabView selectedIndex:', tabView.selectedIndex)
})

Emitted when the selected tab changes.

Native component

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