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 did it like this

if (document.location.hash != '') {
   //get the index from URL hash
   var tabSelect = document.location.hash.substr(1, document.location.hash.length);
   console.log("tabSelect: " + tabSelect);
   if (tabSelect == 'discount')
   { 
       var index = $('#myTab a[href="#discount"]').parent().index();
       $("#tabs").tabs("option", "active", index);
       $($('#myTab a[href="#discount"]')).tab('show');
   }
}