Tab Anything Pro and Blocs 6 issues

Let me get this straight, someone who knows Blocs 6 new Interactions could get the feature to mimic Tab Anything Pro? If that is true, here is a way for a tech genius to make some $$$. I for one would purchase a Bric / Blocs that would do that. :smile:

@Eldar this seemed worthy of cross posting here directly.

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After reading through all the posts (and my goodness there are many!), it goes to show we need a super AI in Blocs 7 so we can command it by saying: “Rewrite all Whittfield’s stuff so it works in this version of Blocs without issue.” Bam! 10 seconds later, it’s all done.

Why stop there? Just command the AI to create whatever Bric functionality you want.

And yes, I suppose you could tell a really smart AI to just design your website for you, but there’s a creative part there which would still need your interaction, if not but for the content.

Some may laugh and mock at this now, but I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that the future of programming is natural language voice commands directed to a really smart computer (think Star Ship Enterprise kind). We tell that brilliant computer (aka “AI”) what to do in normal speech — no techno jargon necessary — and the AI writes the code in accordance with our instructions. Norm might even use it to create new versions of Blocs.

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Yes indeed. By the way this new Minimalist Library website is looking nice!
In the case of this website I should mix accordions for sections and Tab Content for menus. It gets more complicated on mobile with long menu, the content will not be visible and user not thinking he has to scroll down to see content. That was the good site of dropdown menu in TAP.

Just watched this class. @Eldar is always clear, concise and efficient. Very good, useful and helpful job !

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Exactly.
But there’s one thing that I miss and was hoping for.
The example website he was using shows a dropdown menu on mobile.
It would be great to have that.
I tried a few things to achieve that with no luck.

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We can easily create something custom for that. For instance, we can hide the LIST by default ON XS breakpoint, and then trigger its visibility by a button on mobile using toggle visibility, toggle class, or custom interaction. You can style the LIST to resemble a dropdown menu or keep it as it is, the choice is yours.

Tabbed Content Bric in Blocs 6 [Custom Dropdown].bloc (132.9 KB)

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Thank you again for spending the time on this, especially when you are traveling! :luggage:

As you stated Eldar, only buy brics for functionality you can’t get from Blocs.
One of the best functions from TAP was the ability to simply click the Mobil Menu box and get this effect as seen on my Almanac page.
CleanShot 2024-12-05 at 12.04.16
So for mobile, not sure this works without more coding knowledge. Sorry, but NOT CODING is what Blocs is supposed to be all about, right?
You mentioned it would be “easy” to create a “custom” menu, but my friend, what is easy for you doesn’t always seem to translate to “easy” for some of us.
I may just drop that page in my rebuild, not include the data, since there doesn’t seem to be a way to present that data in a format that works for all devices. A shame, it took quite a while to compile it.

The Bloc I downloaded, can that be installed in the Extension Manager in Blocs 6?

Thanks again…

Rich the Weather Guy

Thanks for sharing the tabbed-content project @Eldar.
You are always very helpful.

I finally succeeded in having images instead of text in tabs.
I remembered we used to add background images in a class for menus. And it works!

For those interested, have a look here.

Still thinking how to best handle this tabbed-content on XS.

For the time being, I removed my trials with interaction manager.
Too complicated and painful to create custom interactions for each link which would show one DIV and hide others.