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Manual Tabs

Tabs with manual activation. Arrow keys (and Home/End) move focus between tabs without changing the shown panel; Enter or Space activates the focused tab. Use this when revealing a panel is expensive, so arrowing through tabs doesn't load each one — focus and selection are decoupled.

  • Axe
  • Roving
  • Focus

Preview

Overview content.

Installation

npx shadcn@latest add https://ui.publictheta.com/r/tabs-manual.json

Conformance

Verified against the @publictheta/ui-spec tabs-manual specification on both the React and vanilla reference implementations, across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

  • Axe No WCAG 2 A/AA axe-core violations
  • Roving Exactly one tab stop; Arrow keys move within the widget
  • Focus A visible focus indicator appears on keyboard focus (WCAG 2.4.7)

See the full conformance matrix across all components.