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?
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
you can use method .show() and CSS Selectors. Here is how i get first tab (remember they are elements, you can use their id class or whatever):
e.g.:
$('#tabId a:first').tab('show');
or:
$('a#tab-item-id').tab('show');
So you could put this code on success function of $ajax for example.
<div class="tabs nav-tabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="link.html#tab-1">Tab 1</a></li>
<li><a href="link.html#tab-2">Tab 2</a></li>
<li><a href="link.html#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>
$('.nav-tabs a').click(function(e){
var link = $(this).attr('href');
var result = link.split('#');
console.log( result[0] ); // link.html
console.log( result[1] ); // tab-#
$('a[href="'+ result[0] +'#' + result[1] + '"]').tab('show');
$('#'+result[1]).load(result[0],function(){
// do something
});
return false;
});
UPDATE
I'm not sure about this part $('a[href="'+ result[0] +'#' + result[1] + '"]').tab('show');
may be you will need to use another construction, for example <a href="link.html" data-target="#tab-1"></a>