Jump to specific tab from another tab with Bootstrap's nav-tabs

Question

I\'m using Bootstrap\'s nav-tabs with the following setup:

Answer 1

You might have been put on the the wrong foot by the other answers you mention ... it is fairly trivial to change tabs from within the same page (regardless if you're in another tab or not): you can use the basic bootstrap tab navigation Javascript for this.

First change your html a bit: add an id to your

.. then add a link to your second tab:

  

    Jump to home tab (this works)
...

and add the following in your document ready:

$('#gotohome').click(function() {
  $('#myTab a[href="#home"]').tab('show');
});

Working example at jsFiddle.