jQuery UI tabs. How to select a tab based on its id not based on index

Question

I have two tabs and configured usign jQuery UI.

ul  class=\"tabs\"
  li  tabone
  li tabtwo
ul

dynamically from C# code behind I will hide

Answer 1

I found this works more easily than getting an index. For my needs, I am selecting a tab based off a url hash

var target = window.location.hash.replace(/#/,'#tab-');
if (target) { 
    jQuery('a[href='+target+']').click().parent().trigger('keydown');      
}