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

You can try something like this, it's pretty easy to do.

# Set selected_tab to the correct index based on the current url anchor hash
selected_tab = 0
if matches = /#(\w+)/.exec(window.location.hash)
  # find the index of the tab with the given id
  selected_tab = $('#' + matches[1]).index() - 1

# Initialize the tabs and set 'selected' to equal the selected_tab variable we just set
$('.tabable').tabs
  selected: selected_tab,  # this is where the magic happens
  select: (evt, ui) ->
    window.location.hash = ui.panel.id  # set an anchor tag in the url with the tab id