I was search­ing for some kind of dhtml roll-up wid­get yes­ter­day — some­thing to make lit­tle boxes zip up with only their title show­ing, kind of like what hap­pens on the left hand side of Win­dows XP Explorer when the tree is hid­den. It’s for an intranet page, so I could rely on JavaScript as long as it worked in both IE and FireFox.

Well, I didn’t find what I was look­ing for, but I did find this fan­tas­tic tab pane instead, at WebFX. I’d seen the site men­tioned recently on the CFAussie mail­ing list in con­junc­tion with Bindows, which is a DHTML GUI toolkit. Nice.

Any­way, using the tab panel (which involved noth­ing more than includ­ing the js and css files, and plac­ing my CF code into par­tic­u­larly named divs) allowed a much sim­pler and more organ­ised inter­face, so I threw away the rolled up pan­els idea and switched to tabs. It looks very impres­sive. I think it will be eas­ier to use too.