Question

I have the following function where I attempt to load a specified url into a new or existing tab (contentPane), I have it working for the most part, however when an existing tab is specified the original url still gets reloaded instead of adding the new html, how can I accomplish the part where an existing tab is passed without having to remove the attribute refreshOnShow upon creating a new tab??

openTab = function(url,title, id){
    var tab = dijit.byId(id);
    var centerPane = dijit.byId('centerPane');

    if (tab){
       //if target container exists then let's load the url and add it to the container
        centerPane.selectChild(tab);
        $.get(url, function(data) {
          $('#'+id).html(data);

        });
        centerPane.selectChild(tab);


    } else {

        var newTab = new dijit.layout.ContentPane(
                {
              'title': title,
              href:url,
              closable:true,
              selected:true,
              parseOnLoad:true,
              preventCache:true,
              refreshOnShow:true
            }, id);
        centerPane.addChild(newTab);
        centerPane.selectChild(newTab);
    }
};

Answer 1

This is how my updated function looks, it works for me:

    openTab = function(url,title, id){
        var tab = dijit.byId(id);
        var centerPane = dijit.byId('centerPane');
        if (tab){
           //if target container exists then let's load the url and add it to the container
            tab.href = url;
            tab.set('title',title);
            centerPane.selectChild(tab);
        } else {        
            var newTab = new dijit.layout.ContentPane(
                {
                  'title': title,
                  href:url,
                  closable:true,
                  selected:true,
                  parseOnLoad:true,
                  preventCache:true,
                  refreshOnShow:true
                }, id);
            centerPane.addChild(newTab);
            centerPane.selectChild(newTab);
        }


    };