Using Sibling Combinator to create tabs for dynamic content

Question

I'm basing my tab implementation on the following:

https://codepen.io/oknoblich/pen/tfjFl

Within this pen, we have the following structure:

  <input id="tab1" type="radio" name="tabs" checked>
  <label for="tab1">Codepen</label>

  <input id="tab2" type="radio" name="tabs">
  <label for="tab2">Dribbble</label>

  <input id="tab3" type="radio" name="tabs">
  <label for="tab3">Dropbox</label>

  <input id="tab4" type="radio" name="tabs">
  <label for="tab4">Drupal</label>

  <section id="content1">
    content1
  </section>

  <section id="content2">
    content2
  </section>

  <section id="content3">
   content3
  </section>

  <section id="content4">
    content4
  </section>

With tabbing made possible by sibling selectors:

section {
  display: none;
  padding: 20px 0 0;
  border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
}

input {
  display: none;
}

label {
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 0 0 -1px;
  padding: 15px 25px;
  font-weight: 600;
  text-align: center;
  color: #bbb;
  border: 1px solid transparent;
}

#tab1:checked ~ #content1,
#tab2:checked ~ #content2,
#tab3:checked ~ #content3,
#tab4:checked ~ #content4 {
  display: block;
}

However I have several "panes" that each require their own tabs, so the name and id attributes are dynamic.

Within a foreach loop that renders the html, I have this:

        <div class="tabs-container">

            <input data-bind="attr:{id: 'tab1-' + factorPaneId, name: 'tabs1-' + factorPaneId}" type="radio" checked>
            <label data-bind="attr:{for: 'tab1-' + factorPaneId">Description</label>

            <input data-bind="attr:{id: 'tab2-' + factorPaneId, name: 'tabs2-' + factorPaneId}" type="radio" checked>
            <label data-bind="attr:{for: 'tab2-' + factorPaneId">Description</label>

            <section data-bind="attr:{id: 'content1-' + factorPaneId">
                <p data-bind="text: factor.factorDescription"></p>
            </section>

            <section data-bind="attr:{id: 'content2-' + factorPaneId">
                <p data-bind="text: factor.factorDescription"></p>
            </section>
        </div>

But I'm not sure how to modify the CSS to support this need for dynamic id s. Specifically this bit:

#tab1:checked ~ #content1,
#tab2:checked ~ #content2,
#tab3:checked ~ #content3,
#tab4:checked ~ #content4 {
  display: block;
}

I need some way to say:

#tab1-*:checked ~ #content1-*{
  display: block;
}

Where the * s are equal. Is there a CSS/HTML-only solution to this?

Answer 1

You could maybe try using the CSS attribute starts with selector ( ^= ) for the id .

Like this:

[id^="tab1"]:checked ~ [id^="content1"],
[id^="tab2"]:checked ~ [id^="content2"],
[id^="tab3"]:checked ~ [id^="content3"],
[id^="tab4"]:checked ~ [id^="content4"] {
  display: block;
}

Here is an updated CodePen .

Answer 2

You can also target them based in the order of ocurrence

 *, *:before, *:after { margin: 0; padding: 0; box-sizing: border-box; } html, body { height: 100vh; } body { font: 14px/1 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #555; background: #eee; } h1 { padding: 50px 0; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; } p { margin: 0 0 20px; line-height: 1.5; } main { min-width: 320px; max-width: 800px; padding: 50px; margin: 0 auto; background: #fff; } section { display: none; padding: 20px 0 0; border-top: 1px solid #ddd; } input { display: none; } label { display: inline-block; margin: 0 0 -1px; padding: 15px 25px; font-weight: 600; text-align: center; color: #bbb; border: 1px solid transparent; } label:before { font-family: fontawesome; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 10px; } label[for*='1']:before { content: '\\f1cb'; } label[for*='2']:before { content: '\\f17d'; } label[for*='3']:before { content: '\\f16b'; } label[for*='4']:before { content: '\\f1a9'; } label:hover { color: #888; cursor: pointer; } input:checked + label { color: #555; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-top: 2px solid orange; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; } input:nth-of-type(1):checked ~ section:nth-of-type(1), input:nth-of-type(2):checked ~ section:nth-of-type(2), input:nth-of-type(3):checked ~ section:nth-of-type(3), input:nth-of-type(4):checked ~ section:nth-of-type(4) { display: block; } 

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