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

I know this thread is very old, but I'll leave here my own implementation:

$(function () {
  // some initialization code

  addTabBehavior()
})

// Initialize events and change tab on first page load.
function addTabBehavior() {
  $('.nav-tabs a').on('show.bs.tab', e => {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace('nav-', '')
  })

  $(window).on('popstate', e => {
    changeTab()
  })

  changeTab()
}

// Change the current tab and URL hash; if don't have any hash
// in URL, so activate the first tab and update the URL hash.
function changeTab() {
  const hash = getUrlHash()

  if (hash) {
    $(`.nav-tabs a[href="#nav-${hash}"]`).tab('show')
  } else {
    $('.nav-tabs a').first().tab('show')
  }
}

// Get the hash from URL. Ex: www.example.com/#tab1
function getUrlHash() {
  return window.location.hash.slice(1)
}

Note that I'm using a nav- class prefix to nav links.