---
title: tabViewItems
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nstabview/tabviewitems
---

# tabViewItems

The tab view’s array of tab view items.

## Declaration

```swift
var tabViewItems: [NSTabViewItem] { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion A tab view keeps an array containing one tab view item for each tab in the view. The default value of this property is an empty array.

## See Also

### Accessing Tabs

- [indexOfTabViewItem(_:)](appkit/nstabview/indexoftabviewitem(_:).md)
- [indexOfTabViewItem(withIdentifier:)](appkit/nstabview/indexoftabviewitem(withidentifier:).md)
- [numberOfTabViewItems](appkit/nstabview/numberoftabviewitems.md)
- [tabViewItem(at:)](appkit/nstabview/tabviewitem(at:)-7r3at.md)