Tableau dashboards often contain functional, but visually not really exciting navigation. Until recently, creating a modern menu meant floating objects, images, and/or tricky workarounds.
With the new rounded corners feature in Tableau 2026.1, you can now build cleaner, intuitive navigation bars that highlight the active item while keeping the others flat, just like the pill-style menus common on the web. In this post, I’ll show you how to set it up step by step and avoid the common pitfalls along the way.
Instead of the classic, rigid button layouts, you can now create modern navigation bars that feel much closer to what users expect from contemporary web and app design.
It’s a subtle change, but it makes dashboards feel more polished, more intentional, and ultimately more user-friendly.
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