Thanks for writing this for me but that's not what I'm trying to do. Please
see the above-posted comment with regard to automatically scrolling up and
selecting the specified tab. Thanks
Clayton Dukes wrote:
>
> If you want to switch to the tab by name, try this:
>
> // Usage: getIndexForId("#tabs", "MyTabName" )
> function getIndexForId( tabsDivId, searchedId )
> {
> var index = -1;
> var i = 0, els = $(tabsDivId).find("a");
> var l = els.length, e;
>
> while ( i < l && index == -1 )
> {
> e = els[i];
>
> if ( searchedId == $(e).attr('href') )
> {
> index = i;
> }
> i++;
> };
>
> return index;
> }
>
> var index = getIndexForId('#tabs', '#MyTabName');
> $("#tabs").tabs("select",index);
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Steven Black <ste...@stevenblack.com>
> wrote:
>> See the selected option in the docs. It looks something like this to
>> programmatically select, say, the third-tab.
>>
>> $('#tabs').tabs('option', 'selected', 2)
>>
>> http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/#option-selected
>>
>> **--** Steve
>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 8:22 pm, chrisbeaman <chris.bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Well, sure, that gets me to a place above the tabs, but I want to be
>>> able to
>>> switch the tab too. I've tried doing #foo/#tab4 Go to foo and switch to
>>> tab
>>> 4 but it doesn't work.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Steven Black-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> > Did you know.... you can use an HTML element's ID as an a target?
>>>
>>> > <div id="foo">
>>> > ---
>>> > </div>
>>>
>>> > Then, elsewhere...
>>>
>>> > #foo Go to foo
>>>
>>> > Specify the ID of your tabs, or something just above that.
>>>
>>> > **--** Steve
>>>
>>> > On Jan 9, 8:58 am, chrisbeaman <chris.bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Hi, I'm working with the Tabs plugin and have it so that my tabs work
>>> >> fine,
>>> >> and I can click an external text link to control my tabs. The problem
>>> is
>>> >> that these external links (in my footer) are far below where my
>>> tabbed
>>> >> content is.
>>>
>>> >> Does anyone know how I can anchor up to my tabs nav AND change my
>>> tabs at
>>> >> the same time? Ideally I'd like to be able to link to the tabs nav
>>> from
>>> >> another page as well.
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