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What is the tab ID?

Hi,
In my VF page, I see the following code. 'Research' is a custom object. Where or how do I find out how they got that id for the tab?
<apex:tab label="Research" style="white-space:nowrap" name="research" id="tab17".......

 
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David Zhu 🔥David Zhu 🔥
Vinay provided a good resource to understand the purpose of id attribute. 

I just want to explain this in detail with example.

Id attribute for Apex:tab component (and other VF components) is often referenced by reRender attbitute of apex:commandButton and apex:commandLink.

For example, with the following code, if the button is clicked, the tab with id "tab17" will be redrawn. Other section on the same page won't be redrawn.

<apex:commandButton value="Refresh Tab" action="{!doSomething}" rerender="tab17"/>

You can search 'tab17" in your VF page to check how and where it is referenced.

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VinayVinay (Salesforce Developers) 
Hi,

ID is an identifier that allows the tab component to be referenced by other components in the page.

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/pages_compref_tab.htm

Thanks,
Vinay Kumar
David Zhu 🔥David Zhu 🔥
Vinay provided a good resource to understand the purpose of id attribute. 

I just want to explain this in detail with example.

Id attribute for Apex:tab component (and other VF components) is often referenced by reRender attbitute of apex:commandButton and apex:commandLink.

For example, with the following code, if the button is clicked, the tab with id "tab17" will be redrawn. Other section on the same page won't be redrawn.

<apex:commandButton value="Refresh Tab" action="{!doSomething}" rerender="tab17"/>

You can search 'tab17" in your VF page to check how and where it is referenced.
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