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Robyn Cantrell
7,603 PointsTabs in ODOT Application
During the User Authentication sequence of the ODOT application, Jason set the links to log In and sign up in tabs. This was done off screen. I am building an application that I would love to move the traditional links into the tabbed format. Sooo, my question is, How do I do that?
I am plowing through all of the code in the project files but so far (only an hour or so) am unable to isolate the code.
4 Answers
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsDepends what you mean by "move the traditional links into the tabbed format". Do you want the CSS styles? The routes for these links?
Robyn Cantrell
7,603 PointsMaciej,
Thanks for the response.
By traditional links, I currently have hrefs under my Heading that link to the various pages in my site. Simple, old-school html. As for the tabs, I got the links and understand fully how he is navigating from page/controller to page.controller. Basic ruby and/or html. The layout is what changed. He set the links (link_to in code) to where they appear as tabs on top of the page just under the header and/or address bar. I wish I could grab a screen shot but it would not be easily viewed as it would be a shot of a video in my browser.
I was thinking that combined with some other design work I am putting into my application, this would be a nice touch.
It may be that the effect was done in css. Again I have only spent about an hour looking at the code and have not even glanced at the css files yet. Is this where Jason set the tabbed format?
Again thanks for responding!
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsYeah, the tab effect was done in CSS. Take a closer look at ap/assets/stylesheets/application.css file. I think the last selectors and effects are applied to navigation links and give you the tab look, including the hover effect. You can also run your rails server, right click on one of the tabs and click Inspect Element to see what effects exactly were applied on that element and which file has them.
Robyn Cantrell
7,603 PointsThanks!1 I think I found it.