Question

I have the following jQuery script on my site to switch tabs without reloading the page. I’m using jQuery core v1.3.2 (NOT jQuery UI)

<!-- JS -->
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var tabify = function () {
            var id = $('#content > div').hide().attr('aria-hidden', 'true').filter(window.location.hash || ':first').show().attr('aria-hidden', 'false').attr('id');
            $('#content > ul > li').removeClass('selected').find('a[href=#' + id + ']').parent().addClass('selected');
        }
        setInterval(tabify, 100);
        tabify();
    });
</script>

<!-- HTML -->
<div id="content">

  <ul>
    <li><a href="#blog" role="tab">Blog</a></li>
    <li><a href="#videos" role="tab">Videos</a></li>
    <li><a href="#photos" role="tab">Photos</a></li>
  </ul>            

  <div id="blog" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab1" aria-hidden="false">Blog Content</div>
  <div id="videos" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab2" aria-hidden="true">Videos Content</div>
  <div id="photos" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab3" aria-hidden="true">Photos Content</div>                       

</div>

I want to add another instance of this script on the same page, but just copy/pasting this with different variable names doesn’t work. Any ideas?

EDIT: Here is my HTML and JS for the second instance. The problem is when I click on a tab in the second instance, it hides all the content divs in the first instance, and vice versa. I want them to be independent of one another.

<!-- JS -->
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var tabifyplayer = function () {
            var idplayer = $('#discography > div').hide().attr('aria-hidden', 'true').filter(window.location.hash || ':first').show().attr('aria-hidden', 'false').attr('idplayer');
            $('#discography > ul > li').removeClass('selected').find('a[href=#' + idplayer + ']').parent().addClass('selected');
        }
        setInterval(tabifyplayer, 100);
        tabifyplayer();
    });
</script>

<!-- HTML -->
<div id="discography">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#cor-player" role="tab">Chance of Rain (2009)</a></li>
    <li><a href="#debutcd-player" role="tab">Debut CD (2007)</a></li>
  </ul>

  <div id="cor-player" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab1" aria-hidden="false">Content Goes Here</div>
  <div id="debutcd-player" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab2" aria-hidden="true">Content Goes Here</div>
</div>

Answer 1

I found a good solution on this page: jQuery tabs – multiple sets on on page

There’s less code duplication this way, too. (Only thing it doesn’t do is let you use the back button, but I can live with that.)

jQuery.fn.minitabs = function(speed,effect) {
  var id = "#" + this.attr('id')
  $(id + ">div:gt(0)").hide();
  $(id + ">ul>li>a:first").addClass("selected");
  $(id + ">ul>li>a").click(
    function(){
      $(id + ">ul>li>a").removeClass("selected");
      $(this).addClass("selected");
      $(this).blur();
      var re = /([_\-\w]+$)/i;
      var target = $('#' + re.exec(this.href)[1]);
      var old = $(id + ">div");
      old.hide();
      target.show()
      return false;
    }
 );
}
$('#tabset1').minitabs();
$('#tabset2').minitabs();