Set a certain tab as active on load with custom jquery tabs

I'm using http://jqueryfordesigners.com/jquery-tabs/ for a project, the tabbing javascript code looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
            $(function () {
                    var tabContainers = $('div.tabs > div');
                    tabContainers.hide().filter(':first').show();

                    $('div.tabs ul.tabNavigation a').click(function () {
                            tabContainers.hide();
                            tabContainers.filter(this.hash).show();
                            $('div.tabs ul.tabNavigation a').removeClass('selected');
                            $(this).addClass('selected');
                            return false;
                    }).filter(':first').click();
            });
    </script>    

and the tabs html looks like this :

<div class="tabs">
    <ul class="tabNavigation">
        <li><a href="#first">First</a></li>
        <li><a href="#second">Second</a></li>
        <li><a href="#third">Third</a></li>
    </ul>

    <div id="first">
        <h2>First</h2>
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    </div>
    <div id="second">

        <h2>Second</h2>
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    </div>
    <div id="third">
        <h2>Third</h2>
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    </div>
</div>  

The question is : How do I set a second tab to be selected and shown by default when page loads? I've tried to replace all instances of "first" with "second" in javascript code but it wouldnt work...

Here is a demo page completed with css for you to toy around http://jqueryfordesigners.com/demo/tabs.html :)

Please help!

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There are two parts that are selecting the first tab and thus need to change:

tabContainers.hide().filter(':first').show();

and

.filter(':first').click();

The filters are using :first, a selector that selects the first matching element. :second is not a valid selector. To select the second tab instead, try this:

var tabContainers = $('div.tabs > div');
tabContainers.hide(); // don't need to show a tab here; it'll be shown below

$('div.tabs ul.tabNavigation a').click(function () {
    tabContainers.hide();
    tabContainers.filter(this.hash).show();
    $('div.tabs ul.tabNavigation a').removeClass('selected');
    $(this).addClass('selected');
    return false;
}).filter('[href="#second"]').click(); // click second link, based on href attr

This could be cleaned up further, but hopefully it gets you started. You can read up on the jQuery filter() method at http://api.jquery.com/filter/ and the jQuery click() method at http://api.jquery.com/click/.