This is a collection of free jQuery plugins.Basically in web design tabs are a style of navigation for easy surfing.Tab plugins are ideal mostly for sidebars but they have also become popular inside posts.You can either use for texts or images.
The below jQuery tab plugins are easy to implement and most of them are optimized for mobile devices.
So here is the list of free jQuery tab plugins with demos.
Tabslet
Yet another jQuery plugin for tabs, lightweight, easy to use, mobile-friendly and with some extra features.
tabulous.js
Tabulous.js can be used with any contents you choose in the tabs and it couldn’t be more simpler to use.
PWS Tabs jQuery Plugin
PWS Tabs is a lightweight jQuery tabs plugin to create responsive flat style tabbed content panels with some cool transition effects powered by CSS3 animations.
Bootstrap Vertical Tabs
Responsive Tabbed Navigation
A handy tabbed navigation, optimized for mobile devices, with support for both horizontal and vertical menu positioning.
jQuery SliderTabs
The goal of SliderTabs isn’t to pollute the jQuery world with another tabs plugin but to create the possibility to build tabs, slideshows, featured content sliders, and more with one plugin. I hope this will be the last plugin you’ll need to create slider type widgets.
hashTabber
This is a simple JavaScript plugin for hashchange-driven tabbed navigation system.
jQuery Responsive Tabs
This jQuery plugin provides responsive tab functionality. The tabs transform to an accordion when it reaches a CSS breakpoint.
Responsive Full Width Tabs
100% width tabbed content with some example media queries for smaller screens.
Scrolltab
Scrolltab is a jQuery plugin that adds tabs visually associated to their position relative to the scroll bar.