# Switching content without refreshing with CSS? **URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/switching-content-without-refreshing-with-css/218709 **Category:** web dev **Created:** [March 9, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/switching-content-without-refreshing-with-css/218709 "2007-03-09T22:48:53Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![DougOfTheAbaci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DougOfTheAbaci](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DougOfTheAbaci) #### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/switching-content-without-refreshing-with-css/218709/1 "2007-03-09T22:48:53Z")
To see an example of what I’m asking how to do view [Apple OSX Downloads](http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/) page. See just after the featured download where they have three tabs? If you click on a tab it swaps out the list with a new one and changes the button’s background image. I’ve been trying to figure it out myself and as far as I can tell it’s a combination of CSS and JavaScript. I’m guessing that they are setting a rule that when one of those list items, the buttons, has “active” concatenated onto the end of it’s class they show certain content and hide other content. And they have a rule that’s specific to each of the three. I’ve done something sort of like this where you swap out an image for text in a title by making a span on the inside and giving it an absolute X position of -9999px or something along those lines. Where I lose it is how do they change it without actually having an anchor tag around it for a link and how do they actually change the class name? What I would love is if someone could give me a quick stripped down example of it or point me to a tutorial, that would be fantastic! Also, what’s the browser compatibility for this? I know certain JS is safe for pretty much any of the main browsers (FireFox, Safari, IE 6, IE 7) and I’ve done something sort of like this where I used buttons to swap out images without refreshing the page. Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated!!!