Nested Tabs

Nested Tabs


First let me say that the more I use jQuery and the many fine plug-ins
the more I am impressed. The tabs plug-in is particularly elegant and
feature-rich. Not to mention it's fine cross browser support and
small footprint. Anyway, enough of my gushing.
Has there been much thought given to nested tabs? Is anyone
considering an extension or a revision to let one set of tabs support
a hierarchy of tabs?
I've gone down the obvious path of putting a set of sub-tabs into a
container/panel of the currently selected top level tab. This works
reasonably well but it isn't ideal for all situations. Consider this
issue, say I have two rows of tabs and I'm on the tab three of the
second (nested) row. If the user clicks on a tab in the top row then
any 'hide' event is associated with the change in the top row and not
with the sub-tab (nested) that I may feel like I'm leaving. Does that
make any sense?
In other words, it could be useful if the tabs system had a way to
support tab heirarchies beyond the fact that I can put tabs inside the
container/panel of an existing tab. So a set of tabs could know that
the user is on subtab4 under tab2.
Just my two cents. Overall, my congratulations to all involved.
You've done a great job.
Steve