I'm new to jQuery (a couple of weeks). I'm trying to nest the jQueryUI tab control. It works fine until the nested tabs are in an external file then I get an exception thrown in the jQuery source. This seems to be a timing issue to a certain extent, because if I place alert boxes in the .ready function of the nested tabs it works. Can anyone help? I'm sure this question must have been asked before, but after hours of searching I can't seem to find a solution.
Here's my very simple example...
Outer Tab
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title></title>
<link type="text/css" href="css/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css"
rel="stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/
jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.tabs.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#OuterTab").tabs();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="OuterTab">
<ul>
<li><a href="innerTab1.aspx" title="InnerTab1"><span>InnerTab1</
span></a></li>
<li><a href="innerTab2.aspx" title="InnerTab2"><span>InnerTab2</
span></a></li>
</ul>
<div id="InnerTab1">
</div>
<div id="InnerTab2">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
InnerTab1.aspx
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<link type="text/css" href="css/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css"
rel="stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/
jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.tabs.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#tabs").tabs();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="#tabA1"><span>InnerTabA1</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#tabA2"><span>InnerTabA2</span></a></li>
</ul>
<div id="tabA1"></div>
<div id="tabA2"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
InnerTab2.aspx
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<link type="text/css" href="css/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css"
rel="stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/
jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.tabs.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#tabs").tabs();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="#tabB1"><span>InnerTabB1</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#tabB2"><span>InnerTabB2</span></a></li>
</ul>
<div id="tabB1"></div>
<div id="tabB2"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks in advance!
Adrian
If you are fetching the inner tabs through ajax, don't include a full html document and jquery, everything is being redefined in javascript and is conflicting.
Simply remove the whole head, body, and html wrapper tags leaving the , and it should work.
You also need to redefine the tabs when they it is loaded. Add a callback to the ajax tabs function -- (something like
function ontabAJAX(){ if ($('.tab .active .innertabs').length)){ $('.tab .active .innertabs').removeClass('innertabs').addClass('tabbed').tabs() }
).Once you called a innerTab page, all the HTML elements become rendered at once. You could be having issues with multiple copies of ID fields, such as "tabs"... The JQuery is referencing $("#tabs"), but there are two present.
Can you please post the JQuery error?
You are definitely running into a little bit of trouble with your duplicated 'Tabs' ID attribute. The following example should achieve what you're looking for:
Main File (Outer Tab)
Tab 1 (tab1.html)
Tab 2 (tab2.html)
This way, when you run your main file, the two tab files are requested via jQuery and loaded into the appropriate divs. Then I have defined a callback to activate the tabs that were just loaded.
If you need more details just follow up with a comment.