Tab with a lot if items and long captions

Hello,

is it possible:

1. To control captions widths? Text size can vary… Now large captions are cutted. Caption tooltips can be also helpful.
2. To enable tab items horizontal scroll bar like for Excel sheets. It is usefull when there are a lot of items inside Tab control. ?

tab = widgets.Tab([widgets.HBox(), widgets.HBox(), widgets.HBox(), widgets.HBox(), widgets.HBox(), 
                   widgets.HBox(), widgets.HBox(), widgets.HBox(), widgets.HBox()])
tab.set_title(0, 'caption')
tab.set_title(1, 'large caption')
tab.set_title(2, 'very large caption with a lot of characters')
tab.set_title(3, 'caption')
tab.set_title(4, 'large caption')
tab.set_title(5, 'very large caption with a lot of characters')
tab.set_title(6, 'caption')
tab.set_title(7, 'large caption')
tab.set_title(8, 'very large caption with a lot of characters')

tab

Scrollbar in Excel:

Thanks! Sergey.

[jasongrout]

The really kludgy workaround in the classic notebook right now that is brittle and may likely break in some future upgrade is:

%%html
<style>
.jupyter-widgets.widget-tab > .p-TabBar .p-TabBar-tab {
    flex: 0 1 300px
}
</style>

[tfmark]

Would it be a quick win to just set the width to auto in the css? It has a min-width of 35px already set.

I’m now using

%%html
<style>
.jupyter-widgets.widget-tab > .p-TabBar .p-TabBar-tab {
    flex: 0 1 auto
}
</style>

as a workaround