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Feature Tabs Showcase — Free HTML CSS JS Tabs Snippet

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<section class="ft-wrap">
  <div class="ft-tabs" role="tablist" id="ftTabs">
    <button class="ft-tab active" role="tab" aria-selected="true" data-i="0">Analytics</button>
    <button class="ft-tab" role="tab" aria-selected="false" data-i="1">Automation</button>
    <button class="ft-tab" role="tab" aria-selected="false" data-i="2">Collaboration</button>
    <span class="ft-ink" id="ftInk"></span>
  </div>

  <div class="ft-panels" id="ftPanels">
    <div class="ft-panel active" role="tabpanel">
      <div class="ft-copy"><h3>Real-time analytics</h3><p>Watch every metric update live with charts that never need a refresh.</p><ul><li>Live event stream</li><li>Custom dashboards</li><li>Export to CSV</li></ul></div>
      <div class="ft-art ft-art-0"><div class="ft-bar" style="--h:40%"></div><div class="ft-bar" style="--h:70%"></div><div class="ft-bar" style="--h:55%"></div><div class="ft-bar" style="--h:90%"></div><div class="ft-bar" style="--h:65%"></div></div>
    </div>
    <div class="ft-panel" role="tabpanel" hidden>
      <div class="ft-copy"><h3>Workflow automation</h3><p>Chain triggers and actions so repetitive work runs itself.</p><ul><li>Visual rule builder</li><li>200+ integrations</li><li>Error retries</li></ul></div>
      <div class="ft-art ft-art-1"><div class="ft-node">⚡</div><div class="ft-wire"></div><div class="ft-node">⚙</div><div class="ft-wire"></div><div class="ft-node">✓</div></div>
    </div>
    <div class="ft-panel" role="tabpanel" hidden>
      <div class="ft-copy"><h3>Team collaboration</h3><p>Comment, mention, and resolve right where the work happens.</p><ul><li>Inline threads</li><li>Live presence</li><li>Role permissions</li></ul></div>
      <div class="ft-art ft-art-2"><div class="ft-chip">@maya</div><div class="ft-chip">@devon</div><div class="ft-chip">@priya</div><div class="ft-chip ft-chip-add">+4</div></div>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

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What's included

Features

Sliding gradient indicator
An ink pill glides under the active tab via transform.
Animated panel entrance
A double-rAF swap fades and lifts each panel in.
CSS-only artwork
Bars, node wires, and chips need no images.
Growing bar chart
The analytics art animates from zero height.
Full ARIA tabs
tablist, tab, tabpanel, and aria-selected.
Arrow-key navigation
Left and right wrap around and activate tabs.
Resize-aware indicator
Re-measures so it never drifts off the tab.
Auto-adapting logic
Tabs and panels are read from the DOM.

About this UI Snippet

Feature Tabs Showcase — Sliding Indicator and Animated Panels

Screenshot of the Feature Tabs Showcase snippet rendered live

The feature-tabs showcase is the product-marketing pattern where one section presents several capabilities behind a row of tabs — click a tab and the copy plus an illustrative graphic swap in. This snippet builds the complete interaction in plain HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript: a sliding gradient indicator that glides under the active tab, panels that fade and lift as they enter, distinct artwork per feature, and full keyboard support.

The sliding gradient indicator

The tab strip contains the three buttons plus a single .ft-ink element absolutely positioned behind them. On every activation, moveInk reads the chosen tab's offsetLeft and offsetWidth and writes them as a translateX and width, so the gradient pill slides to sit exactly under the active tab. Because it animates transform and width with a cubic-bezier ease, the indicator glides smoothly between tabs of different widths instead of snapping. The active tab's text turns white while inactive labels stay muted, reinforcing the selection.

Panel swaps that animate in

Each panel is laid out as a two-column grid: descriptive copy with a checkmarked feature list on one side, a custom illustration on the other. Switching panels is a two-step dance that makes the entrance animate. The outgoing panel loses its .active class and gets the hidden attribute; the incoming panel has hidden removed first, then — inside a requestAnimationFrame so the browser registers the visible state — gets .active added, which transitions it from opacity:0 and translateY(10px) to fully visible. Without that rAF gap, the browser would batch the changes and skip the transition.

Bespoke artwork per feature

Rather than placeholder images, each panel ships a tiny CSS illustration: the Analytics tab animates a row of bars that grow from zero with a ftGrow keyframe; the Automation tab draws nodes connected by gradient wires; the Collaboration tab shows a cluster of mention chips with an overflow "+4". These are pure HTML and CSS, so they stay crisp at any size and weigh nothing. Swap them for real screenshots by replacing the .ft-art contents.

Keyboard and ARIA

The strip is a role="tablist" of role="tab" buttons, each with aria-selected that flips on change, and each panel is a role="tabpanel". Arrow keys move focus and selection: ArrowRight and ArrowLeft wrap around the tab list and activate the newly focused tab, matching the WAI-ARIA tabs pattern so keyboard and screen-reader users get the same experience as mouse users.

Staying aligned

Tab widths depend on their text and the viewport, so a resize listener re-measures and repositions the indicator under the current active tab. On first paint the indicator is placed inside a requestAnimationFrame to ensure the tabs have been laid out before offsetLeft is read.

Customizing it

Add a fourth tab by copying a button and a panel and the logic adapts automatically — tabs and panels are read from the DOM. Recolor the indicator gradient to match your brand, replace the CSS artwork with product screenshots, or change the panel grid to stack copy above art. On screens under 560px the tabs stretch full width and the panels collapse to a single column. Pair it with a testimonial wall below or a pricing toggle to round out a feature page.

Step by step

How to Use

  1. 1
    Paste HTML, CSS, and JSA three-tab feature section renders with the first tab active.
  2. 2
    Click a tabThe gradient indicator slides under it and the panel swaps in.
  3. 3
    Watch the entranceThe new panel fades and lifts into place; bars or wires animate.
  4. 4
    Use arrow keysLeft and right move focus and selection between tabs.
  5. 5
    Resize the windowThe indicator re-measures to stay under the active tab.
  6. 6
    Swap in real artReplace the CSS illustrations with product screenshots.

Real-world uses

Common Use Cases

Product feature pages
Headline capabilities above a testimonial wall, with each tab swapping in copy and an illustrative graphic through a double-rAF entrance.
SaaS pricing flows
Pair with a pricing toggle section after the feature tour, with a sliding gradient indicator gliding beneath the active tab.
App marketing screens
Show app screens beside a phone mockup, where CSS-only artwork of bars, node wires and chips avoids any image files.
Documentation overviews
Group capability documentation like animated tabs in an overview, with arrow-key navigation following the WAI-ARIA tabs pattern for accessibility.
Plan comparison lead-ins
Lead into a comparison table of plans after presenting capabilities, with the analytics bar chart animating up from zero.
Related: Magazine Asymmetric Grid Layout
See the Magazine Asymmetric Grid Layout for a related layouts pattern worth pairing with this one.

Got questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

A single absolutely-positioned ink element sits behind the buttons. moveInk reads the active tab's offsetLeft and offsetWidth and applies them as translateX and width, animating transform and width with a cubic-bezier ease so the gradient pill glides between tabs of different widths rather than snapping.

The incoming panel starts hidden at opacity:0 and translateY(10px). If you removed hidden and added the active class in the same tick, the browser would batch both and skip the transition. Removing hidden first, then adding active inside a requestAnimationFrame, lets the browser paint the hidden-but-visible start state so the fade-and-lift actually animates.

No — each panel's art is pure HTML and CSS. The analytics bars grow from zero with a keyframe, the automation nodes connect via gradient wire divs, and the collaboration chips are styled spans. They stay sharp at any resolution and add no network weight. Replace the .ft-art contents with screenshots if you prefer real imagery.

Yes. The strip uses the WAI-ARIA tabs pattern: a tablist of tab buttons with aria-selected and tabpanels. ArrowRight and ArrowLeft move focus and activate the next or previous tab, wrapping around the ends, so keyboard and screen-reader users get the same behavior as mouse users.

Keep an activeIndex in state and render tabs and panels from arrays. Compute the indicator position from a ref to the active tab in a layout effect (useLayoutEffect / onMounted / ngAfterViewInit) and recompute on resize. Conditionally render or toggle a CSS class for the active panel instead of the hidden attribute. In Tailwind, build the indicator with an absolute gradient element and transition-transform.