Need currently selected tab ID for jQuery tabs

Question

I know I can get the index of the currently selected tab but can I somehow get to the ID (the equivalent of the ui.panel.id if this were triggered by an tab eve

Answer 1

If you want the id (or actually the href) from the selected tab, you can use eq() to retrieve the jQuery Object.

You can see an example here: http://jsfiddle.net/svierkant/hpU3T/1/