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title: Tab
slug: '1406'
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# Tab
A {doctitle} is a Coveo [Quantic](https://docs.coveo.com/en/n9790069/) or [JavaScript Search Framework](https://docs.coveo.com/en/187/) component that the user can select to access a specific section of a [search interface](https://docs.coveo.com/en/2741/).

Among other things, selecting a tab may toggle the visibility of certain elements on the search page.
It may also enforce a [constant query expression (`cq`)](https://docs.coveo.com/en/179/) so that any [queries](https://docs.coveo.com/en/231/) made from that tab only target a particular subset of [items](https://docs.coveo.com/en/210/).

[Coveo Machine Learning (Coveo ML)](https://docs.coveo.com/en/188/) [models](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1012/) need to be informed of tab selections to provide contextually relevant output.

When logging a [Coveo Analytics event](https://docs.coveo.com/en/260/), the [origin level 2](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1338/) should be the name or identifier of the tab from which the event originates.

Don't confuse this with the Search API [tab](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1343/) parameter.