dTabs

Did the dTab docs mention any stylesheets? Any .css files in the plugin dir? They may have introduced new CSS classes which are not in your style.css. You may need to add styling there for the tabs.

Or, you may have style rules interfering with the styling.

You might want to use Firefox and Firebug – you can browse to the tabs and see exactly which css styling is being applied, and tweak it.

Thanks Roger,
I followed the documentation and installed Kubrick tabs which is a theme pre-enabled for dTabs.
If you or anybody else has any pointers to get me started – I’d appreciate it.
Cheers

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have a look here: daveligthart.com

Feedback would be appreciated kindly!

Sometimes documentation can be missing things. That’s typically why you get unstyled items… they forget to tell you to copy a file to your theme directory. Or tick a checkbox. One little css file can light up your whole blog.

That’s why I suggested using FireBug to look at the “unformatted” elements and find out what styling has been applied. If there’s minimal styling, that is what you’re missing. Or, if you’ve got JavaScript disabled and it’s using jQuery, there you go…

It’s hard to suggest much more when you’re running it on localhost. You might want to try the plugin developer.

Thanks for the suggestions Roger – I’ve installed firebug and i’ll give it a go.

Thanks for the plugin suggestion Dave.

Cheers

Try re-installing Kubrick Tabs, it sounds like somewhere along the way maybe you’ve overwritten Kubrick Tab’s style.css with Kubrick’s style.css

Just installing and activating dTabs and installing and enabling Kurbick Tabs should display some default tabs (formatted as tabs) straight out of the box.