Remember which tab was active after refresh

Question

I\'m using jquery tabs on a web page and when the page is refreshed it loses what ever tab I had been on and goes back to the first tab.

Has anyone come across this

Answer 1

Now that cookie is gone in jQuery UI 1.10.0, I mixed Gayathiri's approach with the new options and events:

// using cookie plugin from https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie

var tabCookieName = "ui-tabs-1";
$(".tabs").tabs({
    active : ($.cookie(tabCookieName) || 0);
    activate : function( event, ui ) {
        var newIndex = ui.newTab.parent().children().index(ui.newTab);
        // my setup requires the custom path, yours may not
        $.cookie(tabCookieName, newIndex, { path: window.location.pathname });
    }
});