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### Tabpanels

A container to hold the set of pages in a tabbox. The tabpanels element should be placed in a tabbox. The children of the tabpanels element become the panels of the tabbox. Usually, the children are tabpanel elements. By clicking the first tab, the first panel will be displayed. By clicking the second tab, the second panel will be displayed and so on.

More information about tabpanels

The tabpanels element implements the following interfaces:

nsIAccessibleProvider

Attributes:

selectedIndex

Properties and Methods:

accessible | selectedIndex | selectedPanel

#### Attributes:

##### selectedIndex

Type: integer

Gets and sets the index of the currently selected panel in the deck. The first item is at index 0.

Inherited from XUL Element:

align | allowevents | allownegativeassertions | class | coalesceduplicatearcs
collapsed | container | containment | context | contextmenu
datasources | dir | empty | equalsize | flags
flex | height | hidden | id | insertafter
insertbefore | left | maxheight | maxwidth | menu
minheight | minwidth | mousethrough | observes | ordinal
orient | pack | persist | popup | position
preference-editable | ref | removeelement | sortDirection | sortResource
sortResource2 | statustext | style | template | tooltip
tooltiptext | top | uri | wait-cursor | width

#### Properties and Methods:

Inherited from XUL Element:

align
allowEvents
blur
boxObject
boxObject.element
boxObject.getLookAndFeelMetric
boxObject.height
boxObject.screenX
boxObject.screenY
boxObject.width
boxObject.x
boxObject.y
builder
className
click
collapsed
contextMenu
controllers
database
datasources
dir
doCommand
flex
focus
getElementsByAttribute
height
hidden
id
left
maxHeight
maxWidth
menu
minHeight
minWidth
observes
ordinal
orient
pack
persist
ref
resource
statusText
style
tooltip
tooltipText
top
width

Inherited from Element:

addEventListener
appendChild
attributes
childNodes
cloneNode
dispatchEvent
firstChild
getAttribute
getAttributeNS
getAttributeNode
getAttributeNodeNS
getElementsByTagName
getElementsByTagNameNS
hasAttribute
hasAttributeNS
hasAttributes
hasChildNodes
insertBefore
isSupported
lastChild
localName
namespaceURI
nextSibling
nodeName
nodeType
nodeValue
normalize
ownerDocument
parentNode
prefix
previousSibling
removeAttribute
removeAttributeNS
removeAttributeNode
removeChild
removeEventListener
replaceChild
setAttribute
setAttributeNS
setAttributeNode
setAttributeNodeNS
tagName

##### accessible

Type: nsIAccessible

Returns the accessibility object for the tabpanels.

##### selectedIndex

Type: integer

Gets and sets the index of the currently selected panel. A non-bubbling select event will be sent to the tabpanels element when the selection changes.

##### selectedPanel

Type: tabpanel element

Holds a reference to the currently selected tabpanel. You can assign a value to this property to change the displayed tab.

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