Question

I am using the jQuery Tabs library in a small application. The page has 5 tabs and the content for each page is loaded using Ajax. The problem is, once I load a tab, it remains in the browsers memory (and so do its HTML elements). So if I use lets say a DIV element with the same ID as a previously loaded tab, all JS function related to that ID try to interact with the old tab.

IN other words, lets say I have a page with 2 tabs, “Traffic Data1”, “Traffic Data2”. Now first, I click on the Traffic Data1 tab which makes the ajax call and loads the page just fine. This page, has 2 date input fields, id for the first field is “dateFrom” and the other field is “dateTo”. Next to that is a “Go” button. Upon clicking the button, a JS function shows an alert box with the values in each of the input fields.

Now, I click on the “Traffic Data2” tab. The contents of the page are very different, but it has the identical input fields, 2 for dates (with same IDs) and Go Button. When I press the Go button on this page, I see the alert box with values form the previous tab.

So my question is, Is there a way to unload the previous tab? Or is the only alternative to use elements with unique divs (even though the pages are complete separate).

Thanks

Answer 1

Since the tabs click event reloads your form and assuming you’re using divs to contain the ajax-loaded content, add .click(function () { $(this).children('div').children.remove(); }) to your tabs() declaration.

That should remove the div content and any event handlers that are bound to it.