Template:Navbox Tabs

Purpose
This template is a tool to create navigation templates with a tabbed layout. This condenses the overall size of the navigation template but still offers everything in it. This makes navigation templates with a lot of content far less intimidating and much easier to get around.

Usage
This is a very complex template and has to be carefully used. It should usually only be used on other templates to create a navigation box. To use this template, start with this layout:

When on any page specified for a certain tab, only the contents for that tab will display and the tab in question will display as being "pressed" by way of having a different background color than the other tabs. By default, tab1's contents will display when the nav template is placed on any page not specified in the tab pages fields. But in this case no tab will display as pressed. Tabs are best navigated by having a page made for each tab. Even if it has to be a disambiguation page, which actually does make it easier to use the nav template because there's less scrolling involved. You may want to balance line breaks and the width parameter to make the navigation template look its best.