Can you disable tabs in Bootstrap?

Question

Can you disable tabs in Bootstrap 2.0 like you can disable buttons?

Solution 1

You could remove the data-toggle="tab" attribute from the tab as it's hooked up using live/delegate events

Solution 2

As of 2.1, from bootstrap documentation at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#navs, you can.

Disabled state

For any nav component (tabs, pills, or list), add .disabled for gray links and no hover effects. Links will remain clickable, however, unless you remove the href attribute. Alternatively, you could implement custom JavaScript to prevent those clicks.

See https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2764 for the feature add discussion.

Solution 3

I added the following Javascript to prevent clicks on disabled links:

$(".nav-tabs a[data-toggle=tab]").on("click", function(e) {
  if ($(this).hasClass("disabled")) {
    e.preventDefault();
    return false;
  }
});

Solution 4

i think the best solution is disabling with css. You define a new class and you turn off the mouse events on it:

.disabledTab{
    pointer-events: none;
}

And then you assign this class to the desired li element:

<li class="disabled disabledTab"><a href="#"> .... </a></li>

You can add/remove the class with jQuery also. For example, to disable all tabs:

$("ul.nav li").removeClass('active').addClass('disabledTab');

Here is an example: jsFiddle

Solution 5

No Need Any Jquery, Just One Line CSS

.nav-tabs li.disabled a {
    pointer-events: none;
}

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Comments

[arbme]

Thanks worked a treat, also added css "cursor:no-drop;" for cursor so use knows why they can't click it

[Christophe Geers]

cursor: not-allowed; is more appropriate in this case. Unless you are actually drag-and-dropping.

[DS_web_developer]

this is one of the main functionalities and it boggles me it is not yet implemented

[Stuart Allen]

This helped me, thank you. To re-activate the tab just add the data-toggle attribute back to the <a> tag, child of the <li> of interest: $('#my-tab-li-element').children('a').attr('data-toggle', 'tab');

[Pencilcheck]

Or add a disabled class to the li

[Jeroen K]

It is implemented in v3

[svlada]

Yes but links are still clickable.

[mellis481]

I think a combination of this and @hotzu's response should be the answer. You should add the disabled class to the li element and then add the javascript you specified except the condition you'd be checking against would be: if ($(this).parent().hasClass('disabled')) {..}.

[Jaider]

+ Adding a disabled css-class to the li

[totas]

@im1dermike I don't see why I would be doing this?

[Cyril N.]

Exactly, the viable solution so far is to remove the data-toggle attribute.

[Scabbia]

You need to use both suggestions above: Add "disabled" class to <li> AND Remove data-toogle or href attribute from tab

[meuwka]

good! but need e.preventDefault() before e.stopImmediatePropagation()

[Rafael Herscovici]

i would strongly recommend against that. since a css only solution leaves the tabs clickable. in case there are other events listening for those clicks, they will be executed, which is not the desired result. (i guess?)

[effe]

I simply added this CSS and now class="disabled" works as expected .nav.nav-tabs > li.disabled { pointer-events: none; a { color: silver; } }

[Jim]

Now that I read down further, this is also basically the same exact answer as the one from @Scott Stafford, who answered it 2 years earlier...

[sebastian]

In my case, this did the trick. I built a form consisting of multiple tabs. Going to the next tab is done via a button, which triggers a click-event on the tab to go to. So disabling clicks completely is not an option for me, but removing pointer events from the tabs was just what I needed.

[robsch]

The border of the currently active tab gets still removed with this solution, when I click on a disabled tab.

[Jared]

Old question, but it's what I found so I'm adding this. You would do that check because the li is what changes the visuals for the user and is consequently what should have the disabled class.

[Daniel]

I had to do this on li.disabled (not li.disabled a)

[Augus]

@effe super answer. Best solutions. It disables the click and allows us to navigate through next previous buttons. Where as the above solutions disables all the options to navigate.