Preventing scroll when using URI hash to identify tab

Question

I\'m using JQuery UI to make tabs in my application. I needed the tabs to be linkable (direct link that opens the page and selects the correct tab). This is done by using a

Answer 1

This may not be the best method, but if you rename all of the ID's after the tabs have been created, then adding a hash with the original ID won't scroll the page. I used this method because even with javascript disabled, the hash will take the user to the correct ID. Here is a demo of the code below:

$("#tabs").tabs({
    create: function(event, ui) {
        // get tab plugin data
        var tabs = $('#tabs').data('tabs'),
            // tabs.anchors contains all of the tab anchors
            links = tabs.anchors;
        // tabs.panels contains each tab
        tabs.panels.each(function(i){
            // just adding a "mod_" prefix to every ID/hash
            this.id = 'mod_' + this.id;
            links[i].hash = '#' + this.id;
        });
    }
});

/**
 * Add hash to URL of the current page
 * 
 * http://chwang.blogspot.com/2010/02/jquery-ui-tabs-updating-url-with-hash.html
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/570276/changing-location-hash-with-jquery-ui-tabs
 */
$("#tabs").bind('tabsshow', function(event, ui) {
    // remove the prefix from the ID, so we're showing the original ID in the hash
    window.location.hash = ui.tab.hash.replace('mod_', '');
});