Little correction here: ui.tab is a DOM element, thus you have to wrap
in a jQuery object to be able to call the text method:
alert('tab label ' + $(ui.tab).text());
--Klaus
On Aug 29, 1:15 pm, Brian Schilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is very easy to do with the current version of ui.tabs. The tabs
> documentation page (http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs#Events) has a
> section on the tab events. Its here where you can grab the tab label,
> or tab text. Use the below code to bind the tabselect event to the
> tabs. This is fired each time a tab is clicked. This event is passed
> the ui object which contains the tab label.
>
> $('.ui-tabs-nav').bind('tabsselect', function(event, ui) {
> alert('tab label ' + ui.tab.text());
>
> });
>
> Brian
>
> On Aug 28, 6:51 pm, Brandon Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello, my first post to the jQuery UI discussion group. Gawd I feel
> > like such a newb with that statement, but...
>
> > I just recently started using jQuery to make webpages as a hobby, and
> > I'm currently experimenting with tabs. I'm generating the tabs
> > dynamically, and am attaching them to dynamically generated divs that
> > contain tables, again with their own dynamic generation. The ID's of
> > these divs are generated with the name of whatever data they're
> > grouping, and this is also the same as the text in the label of the
> > tab connected with it. What I'd like to know, or if there's no way
> > that you know to do it suggest for a future version of the UI, is if
> > there's a way to get the text of the tab label that is currently
> > selected, or of a particular index, whatever.
>
> > Thanks... and if you need a better explanation, just ask. I probably
> > didn't communicate that as well as I wanted to.
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