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

For jQuery UI >= 1.9 you can use ui.newPanel.selector:

$('#tabs').on('tabactivate', function(event, ui) {
  console.log(ui.newPanel.selector);
});