Tabs · Sidebar

The client area of a website: a sidebar with icon links that work as tabs, the user's profile and a log out link at the bottom, and a panel per section on the right (title, a sentence and two cards).

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Tabs · Sidebar on fancybricks.co — the live preview, and the button that copies it.

In the builder

Preview on the front end. Scripts don't run inside the builder, so here you only see the layout: the tabs don't turn into an accordion on phones here (that needs the script). Save and open the page to see the full result.

Structure

This is what the Bricks Structure panel shows after you paste the template. Component instances say which component they are.

Sidebar tabs
  Container
    Intro   (FBK Intro)
    Tabs
      Tab menu
        Tab · Overview
          Tab · Icon
          Tab · Name
        Tab · My trips
          Tab · Icon
          Tab · Name
        Tab · Documents
          Tab · Icon
          Tab · Name
        Tab · Payments
          Tab · Icon
          Tab · Name
        Tab · Support
          Tab · Icon
          Tab · Name
      Account
        Account · User
          Account · Avatar
          Account · Name and email
            Account · Name
            Account · Email
        Account · Log out (link)
          Logout · Icon
          Logout · Text
      Tab content
        Pane · Welcome back, Laura
          Panel
            Panel · Heading
              Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
            Panel · Cards
              Card · Coffee Hills of Salento   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
              Card · One thing left to do   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
        Pane · Your trips
          Panel
            Panel · Heading
              Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
            Panel · Cards
              Card · Coffee Hills of Salento   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
              Card · Caribbean Coast of Cartagena   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
        Pane · Documents for the road
          Panel
            Panel · Heading
              Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
            Panel · Cards
              Card · Day-by-day plan   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
              Card · Tickets and vouchers   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
        Pane · Payments
          Panel
            Panel · Heading
              Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
            Panel · Cards
              Card · Deposit paid   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
              Card · Balance due on 12 May   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
        Pane · Talk to your planner
          Panel
            Panel · Heading
              Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
            Panel · Cards
              Card · Send a message   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
              Card · Change the dates   (FBK Card)
                Card · Button   (FBK Button)
    Tabs · sliding line (JS, optional)
    Tabs → accordion below 767px (optional, deletable)

The template also pastes a dashed note above the section, with the short version of this page. It only shows inside the builder, never on the published page — see Builder notes.

How to adjust

Every step is the same move: pick the element in the Structure panel, change its Properties.

Where are those panels?

How to adjust a template shows every one of them in a screenshot of the real builder: the Structure and Properties panels, the classes on an element, a component's style families and the field where a CSS variable goes.

The classes this element carries, in the Bricks panel.

This template's own component, with its Style group open.

1. Paste the template in Bricks first — see Copy and paste.
2. Select Intro, Panel · Intro ×5 (FBK Intro) › Properties: Eyebrow, Hide eyebrow, Title, Title level, Lead, Hide lead · Style group: Eyebrow style, Highlight, Title size, Accent line · Layout group: Alignment, Layout, Background, Spacing · Motion group: Reveal in slider.
3. Select Card · Coffee Hills of Salento ×2, Card · One thing left to do, Card · Caribbean Coast of Cartagena (+6 more) (FBK Card) › Properties: Title, Title level, Text, Hide text · Style group: Highlight, Title size, Look, Tone, Shape, Photo overlay, Padding, Photo hover, Background · Layout group: HTML tag, Layout.
4. Select Card · Button ×10 (FBK Button) › Properties: Text, Link, Tone, Shadow on hover · Icon group: Icon, Icon position · Style group: Style, Size, Width, Hover effect.
5. Select Tabs › one tab = a title and its pane, in the same order: duplicate both to add one.

Requirements

• Code execution. Needs "Execute code" enabled for the role in Bricks → Settings → Custom code, or the JS block shows as plain text instead of running.

What each requirement is, and how to set it up once for the whole site: Requirements.

Finish by hand

• Change the icons and names of the tabs and, in each pane, the title, text and cards. Keep each pane to a title, a sentence and two or three cards: the panel column has a minimum height so the section does not jump between tabs (raise it on .fbk-tabsside__content if your panes are taller).
• The profile (name, email) and the Log out link are not tabs: they sit under the list. Point Log out to your log out URL.
• Each piece has its own class (menu, tab, icon, account, content, pane, panel, cards): edit its styles in the panel.
• Title, colors and states are the house tabs (fbk-tabs: weight 600, text color, brand under the mouse and on the open one); the soft background under the mouse is the :hover background of .fbk-tabsside__tab. The 2 px line that slides to the open tab is the code block Tabs · sliding line, placed in the Custom CSS of .fbk-tabsside__menu (%root% > .tab-indicator); without it (and in the phone accordion) the open tab draws its own line, %root%::before in .fbk-tabsside__tab. The open pane fades in from the Custom CSS of .fbk-tabsside__pane.
• The accordion on phones needs "Execute code" enabled for the role; delete the code block if you do not want it (the sidebar then sits above the panel).

On phones

The template is designed desktop first, the Bricks default, and only changes at the two widths the library uses:

• 991px and below — .fbk-tabsside, .fbk-tabsside__content, .fbk-intro.
• 767px and below — .fbk-tabsside, .fbk-section.

Those changes live in Bricks' own breakpoint fields, so you edit them where you always do: pick the breakpoint in the toolbar and the same fields follow.

Careful with the classes shared by the whole library (fbk-section, fbk-intro, the component classes): a change there shows up in every template that uses them.

If your site's breakpoints are set up mobile first, copy the mobile-first variant of the template instead — see Copy and paste.

Accessibility

In this template, keyboard focus is visible on every interactive piece; movement is cut back when the visitor's system asks for less motion; the state screen readers need is already set (aria-hidden, aria-label).

What is checked on every template, and what depends on your own palette: Accessibility.

Dark mode

With your site in dark mode this section turns dark too — the class fbk-section--auto-dark on the section does it. Remove the class to keep it light.

Its background is a modifier on the section, so you can swap it for any of the ones the template is checked with: fbk-section--light, fbk-section--soft, fbk-section--dark.

How the library follows your site's color scheme: Dark mode and preview.

Replaces

• 02 - Vertical tabs from Fancy Bricks 2.0
• 02 - Vertical tabs from Fancy Bricks 2.0

What happened to the old libraries, and what to do with pages already built with them: Migrating from 1.0/2.0.