I've used this for the 'tabs' functionality in the display of usually very long academic profiles and haven't looked at the 'slider' functionality.

The tabs work well, with both small and large chunks of text. Headers included in a tab disappear (I assume an intended part of the implementation) but this wasn't a big problem for my usage. It all looks and functions okay in IE6 (again, I have no idea about the 'slider' functionality but looking at some of the other comments, there may be issues).

One problem which I decided to put up with in order to make use of this useful little plug-in is that internal document id links (hash # links), don't work inside a tab when referred to OUTSIDE of the document and will instead simply default to the first tab (I'm not sure if they work only in the first tab, but it wouldn't make much difference). They do however work fine within the document itself. What this means is that an external link to say http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/g_zhang.htm#publications_books likely won't link directly to the hash-linked tag. If the tab that the 'publications_books' hash-tag is within is open though, then it links fine, so still useful for quickly jumping around a long piece of text.

Furthermore, it would be useful if the plug-in generated a unique id for each tab that could be used to have a tab open up through a hash-tag URL but I assume it would probably have the same issue as above.

Even though I would like for the above to work properly, I still think this plug-in merits 5-star for its tab functionality and hope that at some point the developers might address the issue.

Thanks for this.

Ben Caesar

Fast, clean and stable. Great work guys, thank you!

I really wanted this new version for Joomla 1.5 to work (I purchased this awhile back and never used it). I was using another accordion module that integrated into my css style with no work on my part. The problem was, I just ran into a deal-killer with it. (my mambots within the articles were not being processed).
So, I downloaded the new 1.5 version of JoomlaWorks Tabs & slides module.
Ouch! - The sliding action is incredibly jerky. I modified the slide speed, and it did not make the motion any smoother. It is really painful on the eyes to deal with the jerky opening and closing.
But in fairness, it processed my mambot perfectly.

As I said, I really wanted this to work. The flexibility with modules is enticing to be sure.

But the jerky open/close is just unbearable and I couldn't subject my customers to that. Maybe the code needs a rewrite.
Such a promising idea.

Just install it and type a few { tab=foo }, { tab=bar }, { /tabs } on your pages and it works. Download to working in under 10 minutes.

Since install I've probably reduced the number of articles by 20% so I can combine related content without huge pages or read-mores.

Goobs of CSS options. I guess if you are CSS-shy then this isn't as helpful. But the defaults are reasonable and you can add little changes over time. I started with the defaults, added some color on the selected tab to match the color of the topmenu in the Milkyway template. Etc...

And the price is tough to beat...

This could be better then the rest considering it's free, but the company or programmer never responded to 3 requests on 2 different forums or anyone Else's attempts that I saw. T & T does not validate due to a minor issue that if fixed could make this one of the best, yet it is a goof of beginner programming skill level. To put info into the is bad! I'll change this rating if they change that;-)

Yes this is a great module with the sites but their support are so poor in response.

This module is easy to install and very easy to call from content items. It does what it promises but there are some anomalies. You can change the fonts on the slides but not on the tabs. On the latter, your html codes are not recognized and become part of the name. In addition, if you define enough tabs to overflow the line, the break to the next line occurs in the middle of a multiple word tab and never at the end of a tab. Thus in such a case, the last tab is half on one line and half on the next line. In the case of multiple lines of tabs, they are packed so close together that they partly overlay the preceding line.

On the slides, they are spaced too far apart and I cannot find a way to prevent that. That last flaw is that when you use the tabs and the content under the tabs differ in length, the display box is set to the length needed to display the content in the first tab. If a later tab has more content, it cannot be seen and I can find no key or mouse action that will provide a bigger display area. You can get around this by making the tab with the most content being the first tab.

If none of these flaws bother you or you can work around them, this is a very helpful module. You can see how to employ this module and work around the flaws at www.marstonchronicles.info.

Easy install, easy use. Works across all content pages and only clashes with a few other content plugins (causing display mash-ups). However, disable other plugins and this still chugs away and i'm sure the issues could be resolved if i tried :P

It installs quickly and painlessly, and I can't imagine how to make it much easier to use. Unfortunately, if you want to customize its functions, there are few if any options.

Also, the message boards on the developer site are not well monitored by the developers. Several people have been requesting a way to have the first tab open when the page loads, but a proper solution has yet to be posted. There is one detailed response to the question, but it doesn't seem to work with the latest version of T&S.

This Tabs module is very easy to use. But it lacks of two important features: 1. Open tab on mouseover. 2. Automated tabs change.

Anyway, this is still a very good module. Thanks to the authors.

Great module. Very easy!

To hide the modules in duplicity, it places them in positions that do not exist in template

Have been wanting something like this to display a number of RSS feeds off various sites. Took minutes to set up and start using...great!

a very good module; very useful thank's