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Example of tabbed interface with two sets of tabs: Horizontal tabs, at the top, allow navigation to different pages within the Wiktionary website.
Vertical tabs, to the left, represent languages in which a given spelling occurs, where the selected tab shows the word jam （'already'） in Esperanto.
In interface design, a tabbed document interface （TDI） or Tab is a graphical control element that allows multiple documents or panels to be contained within a single window, using tabs as a navigational widget for switching between sets of documents.
It is an interface style most commonly associated with web browsers, web applications, text editors, and preference panes, with window managers, especially tiling window managers, being lesser known examples.
GUI tabs are modeled after traditional card tabs inserted in paper files or card indexes （in keeping with the desktop metaphor）.
Tabs may appear in a horizontal bar or as a vertical list, of which the former takes typically less screen space whereas the latter can show more items at once while still having space for individual titles.
Horizontal tabs may have multiple rows.
Tabs may be organizable by changing their order through drag and drop, creating a separate window from an existing tab, and implementations may support range-selecting multiple tabs for moving, closing, and separating.
The WordVision DOS word processor for the IBM PC in 1982 was perhaps the first commercially available product with a tabbed interface.
PC Magazine later wrote that it "has served as a free R&D department for the software business—its bones picked over for a decade by programmers looking for so-called new ideas".
HyperTIES browser and Gosling Emacs authoring tool with pie menus on the NeWS window system Don Hopkins developed and released several versions of tabbed window...