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# Tabs

Let users navigate between form steps with labeled tabs.

The `Tabs` element lets users navigate form steps from labeled tabs. The tab for the current step appears active. Clicking a tab navigates to its linked step.

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{% hint style="info" %}
When you add a Tabs element, Feathery can prefill tabs from nearby form steps. You can rename labels, change linked steps, and add or remove tabs in the **Properties** panel.
{% endhint %}

### Configuring Tabs

Open the Tabs element's **Properties** panel to manage its tabs.

Each tab has:

* **Label**: Text displayed on the tab
* **Step**: The form step opened when a user clicks the tab

{% hint style="info" %}
Each step can link to only one tab on a Tabs element. Add another step before adding another tab.
{% endhint %}

#### Validate and submit on click

Enable **Validate and submit on click** to save the current step's data before navigation. When disabled, a tab click navigates without submitting.

### Linking Tabs Across Steps

Link Tabs elements on different steps to share tabs and labels across your form. Editing one linked element updates every linked element.

{% hint style="info" %}
Adding Tabs to a form with existing tabs links it automatically when possible. You do not need to recreate the tabs on each step.
{% endhint %}

### Styles

Along with standard element styles, Tabs supports:

* **Direction**: Display tabs horizontally or vertically
* **Gap**: Set spacing between tabs
* **Default**, **Hover**, and **Active**: Set background, font, and border styles for each state. The active tab links to the current step.

### For Developers

The Feathery SDK and API reference Tabs components with `type` equal to `tab`.


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