Title: Request For Vertical Tabs
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Request For Vertical Tabs

 *  Resolved [will48](https://wordpress.org/support/users/will48/)
 * (@will48)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-vertical-tabs/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve been using this plugin for a couple of years now and frankly couldn’t wish
   for a better product. However, I now find that horizontal tabs are not that mobile
   friendly, especially if you’re using 5 or more in a row.
 * Accordians are a possibility, but for me, they don’t cut the mustard. With this
   plugin, horizontal tabs are default. My question is, can the default be changed
   to vertical, or alternatively, is it possible to make that change by using shortcode?
 * Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
 * Will
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/squelch-tabs-and-accordions-shortcodes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/squelch-tabs-and-accordions-shortcodes/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Matt Lowe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squelch/)
 * (@squelch)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-vertical-tabs/#post-6507477)
 * Hi will48, sorry I don’t know how this thread got missed. It’s been 5 months 
   so I expect you’ve solved your problem either way, but I’ll answer your question
   anyway.
 * At the moment we don’t have support for vertical tabs, but I agree that the tabs
   aren’t great on a mobile and it’s something that’s been getting in the way of
   me using the plugin on various customer websites.
 * I do plan on doing something about the issue at some point, but because the plugin
   is built on top of jQuery-UI which doesn’t support vertical tabs, any solution
   I come up with would be a customisation to jQuery UI. Which is less than ideal.
   However jQuery-UI seem in no hurry to bring in any new features such as nice 
   responsive tabs, so it may have to be done any way.
 * Alternatively I might look at adding a new type of tab that is built from the
   ground up by me to get past these issues.
 * Basically what I’m saying is it’s on the wishlist for the plugin, it’s just difficult
   for me to find the time to write the code.
 *  Thread Starter [will48](https://wordpress.org/support/users/will48/)
 * (@will48)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-vertical-tabs/#post-6507478)
 * Hi Matt,
 * Funnily enough I was looking around at jQuery stuff the other day and came across
   this: [http://jqueryui.com/tabs/#vertical](http://jqueryui.com/tabs/#vertical)
 * Is this a step in the right direction?
 * Regards,
 * Will
 *  Plugin Author [Matt Lowe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squelch/)
 * (@squelch)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-vertical-tabs/#post-6507479)
 * Hi Will,
 * Sadly no, those have been around for a long while but there’s no easy way to 
   swap between horizontal and vertical tabs when going between screen sizes. I’ve
   been meaning to add vertical tabs to the schortcodes for a while (which should
   be a relatively simple task), which might help a few people, but most people 
   seem to want to have tabs on the desktop but vertical tabs on the mobile.
 * I’ll figure something out for it at some point though.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-vertical-tabs/#post-6507479)
 * Status: resolved