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category: Components
type: Data Display
title: Tabs
cols: 1
---
Tabs make it easy to switch between different views.
### When To Use
Ant Design has 3 types of Tabs for different situations.
- Card Tabs: for managing too many closeable views.
- Normal Tabs: for functional aspects of a page.
- [Radio.Button ](/components/radio/#components-radio-demo-radiobutton ): for secondary tabs.
## API
### Tabs
| Property | Description | Type | Default | Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| activeKey | Current TabPane's key | string | - | |
| animated | Whether to change tabs with animation. Only works while `tabPosition="top"\|"bottom"` | boolean \| {inkBar:boolean, tabPane:boolean} | `true` , `false` when `type="card"` | |
| renderTabBar | replace the TabBar | (props: DefaultTabBarProps, DefaultTabBar: React.ComponentClass) => React.ReactElement | - | |
| defaultActiveKey | Initial active TabPane's key, if `activeKey` is not set. | string | - | |
| hideAdd | Hide plus icon or not. Only works while `type="editable-card"` | boolean | `false` | |
| size | preset tab bar size | `large` \| `default` \| `small` | `default` | |
| tabBarExtraContent | Extra content in tab bar | React.ReactNode | - | |
| tabBarGutter | The gap between tabs | number | - | |
| tabBarStyle | Tab bar style object | object | - | |
| tabPosition | Position of tabs | `top` \| `right` \| `bottom` \| `left` | `top` | |
| type | Basic style of tabs | `line` \| `card` \| `editable-card` | `line` | |
| onChange | Callback executed when active tab is changed | Function(activeKey) {} | - | |
| onEdit | Callback executed when tab is added or removed. Only works while `type="editable-card"` | (targetKey, action): void | - | |
| onTabClick | Callback executed when tab is clicked | Function(key: string, event: MouseEvent) | - | |
| onTabScroll | Trigger when tab scroll | Function({ direction: 'left' \| 'right' \| 'top' \| 'bottom' }) | - | 4.3.0 |
| keyboard | whether to turn on keyboard navigation | boolean | true | |
More option at [rc-tabs option ](https://github.com/react-component/tabs#tabs )
### Tabs.TabPane
| Property | Description | Type | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| forceRender | Forced render of content in tabs, not lazy render after clicking on tabs | boolean | false |
| key | TabPane's key | string | - |
| tab | Show text in TabPane's head | string\|ReactNode | - |
| closeIcon | Customize close icon in TabPane's head. Only works while `type="editable-card"` | ReactNode | - |
More option at [rc-tabs option ](https://github.com/react-component/tabs#tabpane )
