# Tab views

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/tab-views
Skill: hig-components-layout
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# Tab views

## Best practices

**Use a tab view to present closely related areas of content.**

**Make sure the controls within a pane affect content only in the same pane.**

**Provide a label for each tab that describes the contents of its pane.**

**Avoid using a pop-up button to switch between tabs.**

**Avoid providing more than six tabs in a tab view.**

## Anatomy

**In general, inset a tab view by leaving a margin of window-body area on all sides of a tab view.**

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