Twitter Bootstrap Tabs: Go to Specific Tab on Page Reload or Hyperlink

Question

I\'m developing a web page in which I\'m using Twitter\'s Bootstrap Framework and their Bootstrap Tabs JS. It works great except for a few minor issues, one of which is I do

Answer 1

Combining peices from other answers, here is a solution that can open many levels of nested tabs:

// opens all tabs down to the specified tab
var hash = location.hash.split('?')[0];
if(hash) {
  var $link = $('[href=' + hash + ']');
  var parents = $link.parents('.tab-pane').get();
  $(parents.reverse()).each(function() {
    $('[href=#' + this.id + ']').tab('show') ;
  });
  $link.tab('show');
}