Question

Currently I am using this line of code in my JavaScript

var tabIndex = $(':focus').attr('tabIndex'); 

However this constantly fails to get the active index.

Here is asp:TabContainer header in case this helps. I have also tried document.GetElementById, however to no avail as well.

    <asp:TabContainer ID="AdvOrBasicSearch" runat="server" ActiveTabIndex="0">

Answer 1

I found this method works much better. I created a variable with the tabContainer itself. Then, I just needed to go inside the variable and pull the value from the _activeTabIndex property.

var tabIndex = $find("AdvOrBasicSearch"); //AdvOrBasicSearch is name of tabContainer
var i = tabIndex._activeTabIndex;