jQuery UI Tabs Example

A simple example showing how to use jQuery UI's tabs

by Checha Man

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.18/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<div id="tabs">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="#tabs-1">Tab 1</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tabs-2">Tab 2</a>
        </li>
        <li class="tabSplit"><a href="#tabs-3">Tab 3</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tabs-4">Tab 4</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
    <div id="tabs-1">
        <p>Content for Tab 1</p>
    </div>
    <div id="tabs-2">
        <p>Content for Tab 2</p>
    </div>
    <div id="tabs-3">
        <p>Content for Tab 3</p>
    </div>
    <div id="tabs-4">
        <p>Content for Tab 4</p>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="tabid"></div>

CSS

body {
    background-color: #eef;
}
#tabs {
    width: 95%;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-top: 10px;
}
/* Note that jQuery UI CSS is loaded from Google's CDN in the "Add Resources" pane to the left.  Normally this would be done in your <head> */
.tabSplit { clear: both; }

JavaScript

// Multi-line tabs in jquery-UI

$("#tabs").tabs({
    activate: function (event, ui) {
        var active = $('#tabs').tabs('option', 'active');
        $("#tabid").html('the tab id is ' + $("#tabs ul>li a").eq(active).attr("href"));

    }
}

);