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Load page into a div with a specific jQuery UI tab selected

I've got a page with some global navigation that loads other pages into a content div using jQuery. The pages I'm loading into the div have jQuery UI tabs on them. I know how to load the pages into the div, but what I want to do is load the pages with a specific tab panel selected/open. Here's the html for my base page:

<nav>
<a href="tabs.htm#tab-1">Link to Tab 1</a>
<a href="tabs.htm#tab-2">Link to Tab 2</a>
<a href="tabs.htm#tab-3">Link to Tab 3</a>
</nav>
<main></main>

And the html for the tabs.htm page:

<div class="tabs nav-tabs">
<ul>
  <li><a href="#tab-1">Tab 1</a></li>
  <li><a href="#tab-2">Tab 2</a></li>
  <li><a href="#tab-3">Tab 3</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="tab-1">Blah</div>
<div id="tab-2">Blah</div>
<div id="tab-3">Blah</div>
</div>

And my script:

$('nav a').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$('main').load(this.href, function() {
});

Is this possible?

Solution

  • With your current setup, you can do the following using the active option of tabs widget:

    $('nav a').click(function(e){
   e.preventDefault();
   var tabIndex = parseInt(--this.href.split('#tab-')[1],10);
   $('main').load(this.href, function() {
        $(this).find('.tabs').tabs({
            active: tabIndex
        })
   });
});

    demo @ plnkr