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

My company blocks cookies so I found a workaround. Simply keep track of the tab using a hidden field and pass that value back once the request is finished. It's not pretty but it gets the job done.

<% if(request.getAttribute("tab")==null) { %>
    $("#tabs").tabs();
<% } else { %>
    $("#tabs").tabs({selected:<%=request.getAttribute("tab").toString() %>});
<% } %>

On the back end I just set the attribute

request.setAttribute("tab", f.get("tab").toString());

Hope this helps.