Jquery UI tabs switch on submit event (asp.net MVC 3) returning JSON to final Tab

Question

I have a page with a jqueryUI tab on it. I have 3 tabs. The first two tabs have two separate forms You can submti one or the other but not both. When you submit one Form, the

Answer 1

If I remember correctly, you can select jQuery UI tab from the URL. If you browse to the same page but with a hash #retTable added to page URL, Return Table tab will be selected. So if the page URL is localhost/Patient/Search, you can use localhost/Patient/Search#retTable to open the third tab.

Since you need to do that in a postback, form's action should contain the hash. Here's an example on how to do that: ASP.NET MVC - Post form to html bookmark?