Need currently selected tab ID for jQuery tabs

I know I can get the index of the currently selected tab but can I somehow get to th开发者_JAVA百科e ID (the equivalent of the ui.panel.id if this were triggered by an tab event...but it's not) of the currently selected tab? I'd prefer not to use the index because ordering of the tabs might change. I prefer not to use the style markups as those may change in future releases. Is there a method for this? If not, can I somehow use the index to access this (maybe even by accessing the panel object first)? Any other ideas?

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You can use the :visible pseudo-selector to target the visible panel:

$("#tabs .ui-tabs-panel:visible").attr("id");

It's worth noting that you can retrieve the active tab from the activate event:

$("#tabs").tabs({
    activate: function (event, ui) {
        console.log(ui.newPanel[0].id);
    }
});

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Jonathan Sampson's answer doesn't work anymore. Try...

$("#tabs .ui-tabs-panel:visible").attr("id");

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/tbEq6/

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If you want the id (or actually the href) from the selected tab, you can use eq() to retrieve the jQuery Object.

You can see an example here: http://jsfiddle.net/svierkant/hpU3T/1/

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As I posted in an answer to this question, there are several ways to achieve this.

On the jQuery documents, they propose to do the following to find the index of the currently open tab:

var $tabs = $('#example').tabs();
var selected = $tabs.tabs('option', 'selected'); // => 0

However, this is impractical if you need to do a lot with that tab. Why they don't yet provide a more practical solution of getting the actual element, I'm unsure, however, through use of jQuery there is an easy solution you can create yourself.

In the following code i'll show you just how easy it is to do anything you want with the current tab:

var curTab = $('.ui-tabs-panel:not(.ui-tabs-hide)'),
    curTabIndex = curTab.index(),  //  will get you the index number of where it sits
    curTabID = curTab.prop("id"),  //  will give you the id of the tab open if existant
    curTabCls = curTab.attr("class");  //  will give you an array of classes on this tab
        //  etc ....
//    now, if you wanted a little more depth, for instance specific tabs area (if you have multiple tabs on your page) you can do simply add to your selector statement
var curTab = $('#myTabs_1 .ui-tabs-panel:not(.ui-tabs-hide)');
//    then you can make simple calls to that tab and get whatever data or manipulate it how you please
curTab.css("background-color", "#FFF");

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After JQuery 1.9 selected is deprecated

So use

var active = $( "#jtabs" ).tabs( "option", "active" );

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For jquery version below 1.9:

 <div class="roundedFloatmenu">
        <ul id="unid">
            <li class="titleHover" id="li_search">Search</li>               
            <li class="titleHover" id="li_notes">Notes</li>
             <li class="titleHover active" id="li_writeback">Writeback</li>         
            <li class="titleHover" id="li_attorney">Attorney</li>
        </ul>
    </div 

And you can find the active tab using:

 jQuery('#unid').find('li.active').attr('id')

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var curTab = $jQuery('#tabs .ui-tabs-panel:not(.ui-tabs-hide)').attr('id');

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This works:

$('#divName .ui-tabs-panel[aria-hidden="false"]').prop('id');

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For jQuery UI >= 1.9 you can use ui.newPanel.selector:

$('#tabs').on('tabactivate', function(event, ui) {
  console.log(ui.newPanel.selector);
});

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I knocked my head against this wall for a while. I have a number of tabs that reference urls mixed in with a bunch of tabs that are populated by javascript code and, therefore, have associated divs (.ui-tabs-panel) that are defined in the markup.

jQuery UI Tabs Widget links tabs with panels using the "aria-labeledby" property of the panel. That property has a value of the anchor contained in the tab. So, for this markup

<ul><li id='tab_1'><a href='ferndorf.php'>I Be Tab_1</a></li></ul>

After attaching the jQuery Tab Widget, you can find the appropriate panel using

panel = $( '.ui-tab-panel[aria-labeledby=' + $( '#tab_1 a' ).attr( 'id' ) + ']' )

vice-versa, you can find the tab associated with the panel using

tab = $( '#' + $( panel ).attr( 'aria-labeledby' ) ).closest( 'li' );

The index of tabs and panels is only related in simple structures.

Have fun.

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$("#tabs .ui-state-active a").attr("id");