CSS Newbie Example: Tabbed Box Using jQuery

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>CSS Newbie Example: Tabbed Box Using jQuery</title>
<style>
   * { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
   body {
      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 62.5%; }
   p { margin: 1em 0; }
   #wrap {
      width: 500px;
      font-size: 1.2em;
      margin: 3em auto; }
   .tabbed-box {
      width: 302px;
      background: #fff url(tabbed-body-bg.jpg) repeat-x bottom;
      border: 1px solid #ddd; }
   .tabbed-box .tabs li {
      list-style: none;
      float: left; }
   .tabbed-box .tabs li a {
      display: block;
      width: 100px;
      padding: 5px 0;
      font-weight: bold;
      text-align: center;
      text-decoration: none;
      color: #888;
      background: #fff url(tabbed-tab-bg.jpg) repeat-x bottom; 
      border-left: 1px solid #ddd;
      border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;}
   .tabbed-box .tabs li:first-child a {
      border-left: none; }
   .tabbed-box .tabs li a:hover {
      color: #333; }
   .tabbed-box .tabs li a:focus {
      outline: none; }
   .tabbed-box .tabs li a.active {
      background: #fff;
      color: #333;
      border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; }
   .tabbed-content {
      padding: 3em 1em 1em 1em;
      display: none; }
</style>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="../../js/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
var currentTab = 0; // Set to a different number to start on a different tab.

function openTab(clickedTab) {
   var thisTab = $(".tabbed-box .tabs a").index(clickedTab);
   $(".tabbed-box .tabs li a").removeClass("active");
   $(".tabbed-box .tabs li a:eq("+thisTab+")").addClass("active");
   $(".tabbed-box .tabbed-content").hide();
   $(".tabbed-box .tabbed-content:eq("+thisTab+")").show();
   currentTab = thisTab;
}

$(document).ready(function() {
   $(".tabs li:eq(0) a").css("border-left", "none");
   
   $(".tabbed-box .tabs li a").click(function() { 
      openTab($(this)); return false; 
   });
   
   $(".tabbed-box .tabs li a:eq("+currentTab+")").click()
});
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
   <div class="tabbed-box">
      <ul class="tabs">
         <li><a href="#">Reader Faves</a></li>
         <li><a href="#">Rob&rsquo;s Faves</a></li>
         <li><a href="#">CSS Primer</a></li>
      </ul>
      <div class="tabbed-content">
         <p>Here's my content for tab 1</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 1</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 1</p>
      </div>
      <div class="tabbed-content">
         <p>Here's my content for tab 2</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 2</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 2</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 2</p>
      </div>
      <div class="tabbed-content">
         <p>Here's my content for tab 3</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 3</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 3</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 3</p>
         <p>Here's my content for tab 3</p>
       </div>
   </div>
</div>


</body>
</html>
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