Question

I have a aspx page which has three tabs. When I click a button in tab3, a postback will occur and it will bring me back to the tab1. How do I stay in the tab3?
Following is my aspx page. Also I have noticed we have a javascript to set the active tab to tab1. Can anyone tell me how to modify it so that it will set the selected tab as the active tab during a postback?

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {

        //When page loads...
        $(".tab_content").hide(); //Hide all content
        $("ul.tabs li:first").addClass("active").show(); //Activate first tab
        $(".tab_content:first").show(); //Show first tab content

        //On Click Event
        $("ul.tabs li").click(function() {

            $("ul.tabs li").removeClass("active"); //Remove any "active" class
            $(this).addClass("active"); //Add "active" class to selected tab
            $(".tab_content").hide(); //Hide all tab content

            var activeTab = $(this).find("a").attr("href"); //Find the href attribute value to identify the active tab + content
            $(activeTab).fadeIn(); //Fade in the active ID content
            return false;
        });

    });

<div id="content">    
<ul class="tabs">
<li><a href="#tab1">Edit</a></li> 
<li><a href="#tab2">History</a></li> 
<li><a href="#attachmentcontent">Attachments</a></li> 
</ul>


<div class="tab_container"> 

<div id="tab1" class="tab_content">

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Answer 1

What you’re referring to is maintaining state, common approaches would be store a variable in the session or viewstate indicating what is the ‘selected’ tab. Then on page load read that back and apply it to your page in the appropriate location.