Variable: tab-line-format
tab-line-format is a buffer-local variable defined in buffer.c.
Documentation
Analogous to mode-line-format, but controls the tab line.
The tab line appears, optionally, at the top of a window; the mode line appears at the bottom.
Source Code
// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/buffer.c
DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("tab-line-format",
&BVAR (current_buffer, tab_line_format),
Qnil,
doc: /* Analogous to `mode-line-format', but controls the tab line.
The tab line appears, optionally, at the top of a window;
the mode line appears at the bottom. */);