Allow to set the active tab in .panel-tabset

[mcanouil]

Discussed in #6668

^{Originally posted by kmkramer23 August 30, 2023}

Description

I was trying to set another tab besides the first tab as the default tab in a panel-tabset when the html document launches. In Rmarkdown this can be done by adding the {.active} attribute to a tab section but that did not appear to work when rendering in Quarto. I got around the problem by writing some javascript code and putting it in the include-after-body to switch tabs on load.

Is there a better way of doing this inside a quarto document?

[mcanouil]

@coatless implemented this in his extension (https://github.com/coatless-quarto/tabby/).
it should be possible to use the same logic natively in Quarto.

[coatless]

Traveling at the moment; but if tab sets are being visited, another useful feature would be adding to the uri a segment to specify tabs that should be open on the page / directly take you to the tab set.

[mcanouil]

I think tab anchor is in another issue or it was only discussed in various media (at least Slack recently).

[coatless]

@mcanouil okidokies; do you have an epic on tabsets or an overview I can quickly look at? (No slack access 😢).

tabby got around the "active" tab hiccup by just placing the preferred tab first compared to maintaining block order.

[mcanouil]

We use labels: tabsets

I don't find any issue about the ability to have anchor on tabsets, thus to link to specific tab.
I will open one to make sure it is tracked.

Edit:

• Allow to link to specific tab in tabset #11830