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What: Closes #12676

Adds a component prop to Tab, following Button’s custom-component pattern, so navigation tabs can render router links.

  • Allows custom components to handle navigation while preserving tab selection, styling, and refs.
  • Handles button-specific attributes and disabled-link behavior.
  • Adds a custom-component example and router-link documentation.
  • Adds unit coverage and a real React Router integration demo with Cypress regression tests.

Additional issues: PF-4726

Testing:

  • 98 Tabs unit tests and 21 existing snapshots passed.
  • Five Cypress tests passed in headless Electron, covering navigation without reload, keyboard activation, focus, disabled links, tooltips, and browser Back.
  • ESM build, demo TypeScript and production build, lint, and formatting checks passed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Tabs can use custom button, link, or router-link components, with support for navigation and tab selection.
    • Added a router-based tabs demo with selectable, disabled, and ARIA-disabled tabs.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Disabled custom tabs now block activation appropriately, while ARIA-disabled tabs retain their intended focus behavior.
    • Router navigation preserves focus and supports browser Back navigation.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance and examples for using custom components, including router links, with tabs.

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  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/Tab.tsx
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/TabButton.tsx
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/__tests__/TabsCustomComponent.test.tsx
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/examples/Tabs.md
  • packages/react-integration/cypress/integration/tabsrouter.spec.ts
  • packages/react-integration/demo-app-ts/src/components/demos/TabsDemo/TabsRouterDemo.tsx
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  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/examples/Tabs.md
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Walkthrough

Tabs now supports custom components for individual tabs, including router links. The changes update tab selection and disabled interaction handling, add examples, and add a router-backed demo with integration tests.

Changes

Custom tab components and router navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tab component selection and click handling
packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/Tab.tsx, packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/TabButton.tsx, packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/Tabs.tsx, packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/TabsContext.ts
Tabs can select a button, anchor, or custom component for each tab. Click handling skips built-in anchor navigation for custom components. Disabled behavior applies to disabled non-button tabs.
Custom component examples and unit coverage
packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/__tests__/*, packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/examples/Tabs.md, packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/examples/TabsCustomComponent.tsx
Tests cover element selection, custom-link selection, ref forwarding, form behavior, and disabled interactions. The documentation and example describe custom components and router links.
Router demo and integration coverage
packages/react-integration/demo-app-ts/src/components/demos/TabsDemo/TabsRouterDemo.tsx, packages/react-integration/demo-app-ts/src/components/demos/index.ts, packages/react-integration/demo-app-ts/src/Demos.ts, packages/react-integration/cypress/integration/tabsrouter.spec.ts
The demo selects tabs from the tab query parameter and includes disabled links. Cypress tests cover route changes, keyboard activation, focus, and browser Back.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant RouterLink
  participant ReactRouter
  participant TabsRouterDemo
  participant Tabs
  User->>RouterLink: Activate a tab link
  RouterLink->>ReactRouter: Update the tab query parameter
  ReactRouter->>TabsRouterDemo: Provide the updated route
  TabsRouterDemo->>Tabs: Set activeKey from the tab query parameter
  Tabs-->>User: Render the selected tab panel
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4aeae

Tabs now support custom link components, and the change adds tests for them. The only remaining concern is that keyboard-activation integration tests run only in non-Firefox browsers. The component behavior is not affected, so the risk is low.

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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding support for custom link components in Tabs.
Linked Issues check Passed The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#12676] and PF-4726. Tab and TabButton accept component, preserve default button or anchor behavior, and render the supplied component. The implement…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain within the navigation-tab scope of [#12676]. Source changes implement custom tab components and event handling. Documentation, examples, unit tests, the React Router demo, and Cypre…
Docstring Coverage Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
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Review comments at @packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/Tab.tsx:
- Line 108: Update the onClick handling in the Tab component so spreading props
cannot replace preventedEvents.onClick for a disabled custom link. Compose the
caller’s onClick with the tab handler, and ensure the caller handler does not
run when isDisabled is true.

Review comments at @packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/TabButton.tsx:
- Line 32: Update TabButton’s type handling so custom components that render
buttons receive type="button" by default, preventing form submission; do not add
this prop to custom links. If the component type cannot be distinguished,
require callers to provide the button type and document that requirement.

Review comments at
@packages/react-integration/cypress/integration/tabsrouter.spec.ts:
- Around line 9-22: Replace the Chrome DevTools Protocol calls in the
`pressEnter` helper with a keyboard-event method supported by the declared
Cypress version across browsers, or use a Firefox-specific implementation while
preserving the Enter key-down and key-up behavior.

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  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/Tab.tsx
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  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/Tabs.tsx
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/TabsContext.ts
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/__tests__/TabButton.test.tsx
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/__tests__/TabsCustomComponent.test.tsx
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/examples/Tabs.md
  • packages/react-core/src/components/Tabs/examples/TabsCustomComponent.tsx
  • packages/react-integration/cypress/integration/tabsrouter.spec.ts
  • packages/react-integration/demo-app-ts/src/Demos.ts
  • packages/react-integration/demo-app-ts/src/components/demos/TabsDemo/TabsRouterDemo.tsx
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