How to Disable Tabs in Bootstrap

The tabs in Bootstrap can be created by using the data attribute data-toggle=”tab”. You also need to use the role=”tab” attribute.
Sometimes, you may need to disable a specific tab as using the Bootstrap framework, for example in the checkout process.
For that, simply remove the data-toggle=”tab” attribute from the <a> tag inside the <li> tag.
For symbolically showing it as disabled, you may add the disabled CSS class in the <li> tag containing that tab.
See the demo and code in the following examples.

A demo of disabling a tab

In this example, four tabs are created as follows:

Home
Java
C#
MySQL
jQuery

The Java tab is disabled as follows:

The Code

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha512-dTfge/zgoMYpP7QbHy4gWMEGsbsdZeCXz7irItjcC3sPUFtf0kuFbDz/ixG7ArTxmDjLXDmezHubeNikyKGVyQ==" crossorigin="anonymous">

    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-0mSbJDEHialfmuBBQP6A4Qrprq5OVfW37PRR3j5ELqxss1yVqOtnepnHVP9aJ7xS" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

 

</head>

 

<body>

<div class="container">

<h3>A demo of disabling Bootstrap Tab</h3>

 

<!-- Nav tabs -->

<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">

  <li class="active"><a href="#hometab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Home</a></li>

  <li class="disabled"><a href="#javatab">Java</a></li>

  <li><a href="#csharptab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">C#</a></li>

  <li><a href="#mysqltab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">MySQL</a></li>

  <li><a href="#jquerytab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">jQuery</a></li>

 

</ul>

</li>

 

<!-- Tab panes -->

<div class="tab-content">

  <div class="tab-pane active" id="hometab">This is enabled tab</div>

  <div class="tab-pane" id="javatab">The Java tab is disabled by removing the data attribute</div>

  <div class="tab-pane" id="csharptab">The C# tab</div>

  <div class="tab-pane" id="mysqltab">The MySQL tab</div>

  <div class="tab-pane" id="jquerytab">The content for jQuery tab</div>

 

</div>

 

</body>

</html>

Another example with custom CSS

In this example, the C# tab is disabled as creating the Bootstrap tabs. The second tab is active as the demo page loaded:

The markup for this example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha512-dTfge/zgoMYpP7QbHy4gWMEGsbsdZeCXz7irItjcC3sPUFtf0kuFbDz/ixG7ArTxmDjLXDmezHubeNikyKGVyQ==" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-0mSbJDEHialfmuBBQP6A4Qrprq5OVfW37PRR3j5ELqxss1yVqOtnepnHVP9aJ7xS" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> 
<style>
.nav-tabs
 {
   border-color:#1A3E5E;
   width:60%;
 }

.nav-tabs > li a { 
    border: 1px solid #1A3E5E;
    background-color:#C1C1FF; 
    color:#fff;
    }

.nav-tabs > li.active > a,
.nav-tabs > li.active > a:focus,
.nav-tabs > li.active > a:hover{
    background-color:#D6E6F3;
    color:#000;
    border: 1px solid #1A3E5E;
    border-bottom-color: transparent;
    }

.nav-tabs > li > a:hover{
  background-color: #D6E6F3 !important;
    border-radius: 5px;
    color:#000;

} 

.tab-pane {
    border:solid 1px #1A3E5E;
    border-top: 0; 
    width:60%;
    background-color:#00006F;
    padding:5px;
    color:  #fff;

}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="container">
<h3>A demo of Bootstrap Tabs</h3>

<!-- Nav tabs -->
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
  <li><a href="#hometab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Home</a></li>
  <li class="active"><a href="#javatab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Java</a></li>
  <li class="disabled"><a href="#csharptab">C#</a></li>
  <li><a href="#mysqltab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">MySQL</a></li>
  <li><a href="#jquerytab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">jQuery</a></li>
  
</ul>
</li>

<!-- Tab panes -->
<div class="tab-content">
  <div class="tab-pane" id="hometab">Write something for home tab</div>
  <div class="tab-pane active" id="javatab">The Java is an object-oriented programming language that was developed by James Gosling from the Sun Microsystems in 1995.

  <ul>
  <li>Java Array</li>
  <li>Java ArrayList</li>
  <li>Java Set</li>
  <li>Java enum</li>
  </ul>
  </div>
  <div class="tab-pane" id="csharptab">The C# tab is disabled.</div>
  <div class="tab-pane" id="mysqltab">MySQL is enabled.</div>
  <div class="tab-pane" id="jquerytab">jQuery is enabled.</div>
  
</div>

</body>
</html>

You can see that the C# tab is disabled by removing the data-toggle=”tab” data attribute.

The disabled class is added in the <li> tag. You can see the complete code including custom CSS overriding the default classes above.

A demo of disabling a tab

Another example with custom CSS

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Author - Abu Hassam