I have a jquery driven web application and a particular page on the site, I use the jquery ui tab control – http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/
This enables me to have a page where content separated by tabs.
This works well without issue.
I now need to add support for the browsers back button – so if I have 4 tabs – A, B, C, D and currently on tab C. When I press the back button of the browser, I would like to return to tab B and press it again, return to tab A. How can I integrate this in to the jquery ui tabs?
Secondly, I when the browsers back button is pressed, along with moving to the previous tab, I would like for the page NOT to refresh if possible. So that the movement for the user seemless and close to instant. How possible is this?
If I understand the question correctly, you can use the jQuery BBQ plugin by Ben – http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/
Similar to your requirement is the demo that Ben provides at http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-bbq/examples/fragment-basic/
Hope it helps.