How to Create Tabs With Horizontal Scroll For Mobile Users

Facebook apps uses this, Uber Eats, why not you? Elementor tabs mobile scroll-able title!

Create Elementor Tabs With Horizontal Scroll For Mobile Users

To begin with, create your tabs Element the way you want it. Here, we are using the one that comes by default with Elementor.

This tutorial will only work with that element. If you are using another tabs Element from an addon, it is still possible but will require modifications.

Create Elementor Tabs With Horizontal Scroll For Mobile Users

If you want something more complex, simply import template shortcode into the tabs content

If you have Elementor Free, you can use Anywhere Elementor to make this possible also.

Create Elementor Tabs With Horizontal Scroll For Mobile Users

Finally, simply use this CSS to make it scroll-able horizontally!

See the end of this article to know where to add the CSS, if you don’t already.


.elementor-tab-title.elementor-tab-mobile-title {
   display: none;
}

.elementor-tab-title:nth-child(odd) {
   background-color: teal;
}

.elementor-tab-title:nth-child(even) {
   background-color: crimson;
}

.elementor .elementor-element .elementor-tabs-wrapper {
   display: flex;
   flex-wrap: nowrap;
   overflow-x: auto;
   -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
   -ms-overflow-style: -ms-autohiding-scrollbar;
   margin-right: -10px;
}

.elementor-tabs-wrapper::-webkit-scrollbar {
		height: 0;
}

.elementor-tab-title {
   flex: 0 0 auto;
}

.elementor-tab-desktop-title.elementor-active:before,
.elementor-tab-desktop-title.elementor-active:after {
   width: 0!important;
}

/* Desktop scroll bar styling */
@media (min-width:1025px){

.elementor-tabs-wrapper::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
        background-color: #b6b6b6;
}
.elementor-tabs-wrapper::-webkit-scrollbar {
        height: 8px;
        background-color: #F4f4f4;
}
.elementor-tabs-wrapper::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
        background-color: #0000008f;
}
}

Use the code below instead of the code above, for Essential addons tabs. Adjust the ‘min-width’ to fit your needs.


@media (max-width: 767px) {
.eael-advance-tabs .eael-tabs-nav>ul {
    flex-flow: row nowrap;
    overflow-x:scroll;
}

.eael-advance-tabs .eael-tabs-nav>ul li{
   min-width:150px;
}
}

That's it! Pretty easy, huh!

When you know the code, that is…

Et voila! Thanks for reading!

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40 Responses

  4. Hello, thanks for the code. Is this supposed to allow us to scroll horizontally by finger swipe on mobile? if so, i can't seem to get it to work on my mobile phone (iphone 7plus)

    1. my bad, it actually works. didn't know it was just for the title in the tabs. is there any way i can make this work with the contents in the tabs?

  6. Thats pretty cool. But it seems like its not working if the page is a User restricted Area.
    If i create a new "page" it works fine. On my template sections in the user area it is not working.

  7. Hi Maxime,
    LOVE this tab swipe function but I am having a little trouble with it.
    On one site is working perfectly and then on another, the swipe function is jittery and unresponsive.

    Have you encountered this before?

    1. PS - It works fine on computer in browser Dev (responsive) mode but not on my mobile. And also checked a few browsers on my mobile to rule out browser problem. Also checked on another mobile and same issue.

      1. Seems to work fine for me... Did you test my demo above with your mobile phones?

  8. Hi! I need to be able to scroll on desktop too, since there's too many tabs for the viewport. Is there a way to use this with a scrollbar or something like that?

  11. Thank you very much for these great tutorials,
    Can you provide the code for Crocoblock JetTabs?
    I tried to make it myself, but I couldnt 🙂

    1. Here it is:

      .elementor .elementor-element .jet-tabs__control-wrapper {
   display: flex;
   flex-wrap: nowrap;
   overflow-x: auto;
   -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
   -ms-overflow-style: -ms-autohiding-scrollbar;
   margin-right: -10px;
   justify-content:start!important;
}
.elementor .elementor-element .jet-tabs__control-wrapper::-webkit-scrollbar {
		height: 0;
}
.elementor .elementor-element .jet-tabs__control-wrapper > div {
    min-width:140px; /* adjust to fit your needs */
}

.jet-tabs.jet-tabs-position-top {
   display:block;
}

      2. Oh how happy I was to find this comment, I have been trying to adapt the code for hours. Thank you for sharing this!!!

  12. Thank you very much for your code.
    But, I have problem with tablet viewport @media (max-width: 1024px). The scroll tabs limited slide from left tabs, so some of tabs title are not visible.
    May I know how to fix that?

    1. UX UI isn't great on desktop if you add this. There will be an ugly scroll bar... This is really more for Mobile users.

    1. Hey Francis!

      try this, under Advanced > custom CSS

      selector .elementor-tabs-wrapper {
      overflow: hidden;
      max-width: 100vw;
      }

      1. Fixed it without the code 🙂

        Layout/Items/Wrap selected no wrap.

        Thank you for your help.

    1. Use this code for that:

      @media (max-width:1024px){

.elementor-tab-title.elementor-tab-mobile-title {
   display: none;
}

.elementor-tab-title:nth-child(odd) {
   background-color: teal;
}

.elementor-tab-title:nth-child(even) {
   background-color: crimson;
}

.elementor .elementor-element .elementor-tabs-wrapper {
   display: flex;
   flex-wrap: nowrap;
   overflow-x: auto;
   -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
   -ms-overflow-style: -ms-autohiding-scrollbar;
   margin-right: -10px;
}

.elementor-tabs-wrapper::-webkit-scrollbar {
		height: 0;
}

.elementor-tab-title {
   flex: 0 0 auto;
}

.elementor-tab-desktop-title.elementor-active:before,
.elementor-tab-desktop-title.elementor-active:after {
   width: 0!important;
}

}

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