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Tab Divider Navigation Bars

You have probably come across tab divider navigation bars while surfing the Web. Some of the most popular sites, such as Amazon.com and Drugstore.com, use tab divider navigation bars.

For tab divider navigation bars to work:

• graphics are designed to give the impression that the active tab graphic is in front of the inactive tabs
• each active tab uses a different color to further enhance the illusion that each tab represents a different section of the site

Benefits of tab divider navigation bars:

• They are hard to miss
• They are more self-evident than navigation bars which use buttons or text links
• Users get the impression that a site is divided into different sections or areas

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