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state: needs-love
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# TabNav
`<TabNav />` renders a list of items as linked tabs (there is also an option
to use labels vs anchors for links for radio button based tabs).
Each item in the list should be a hash of `label`, `href` and `selected`.
- `label`: The text to show
- `href`: a href, probably generated via `href-to`
- `selected`: whether the item is in the selected state or not, probably
generated via `is-href`
**Please note:** This component should probably be rebuilt using contextual
components, alternatively this could be hand built with native HTML using the
same `nav/ul/li/a` pattern and you could just use the CSS component to style
it. Unless there is a reason to do this, this component should be used pending
a refactor (please remove this note once refactored into contextual
components)
```hbs preview-template
<figure>
<figcaption>A TabNav with a conditional button using `compact` which removes empty values from arrays</figcaption>
<TabNav @items={{
compact
(array
(hash label="Health Checks" href="#" selected=true)
(hash label="Service Instances" href="#" selected=(is-href "docs.something"))
(if false (hash label="Don't show me" href="#" selected=false) '')
(hash label="Lock Sessions" href="#" selected=false)
(hash label="Metadata" href="#" selected=false)
)
}}/>
</figure>
```
```css
.tab-nav {
@extend %tab-nav;
}
```