Question

I need to be able to do stuff to the selected tab and the tab before it. I can get the index of the selected tab like so:

var selectedIndex = $tabs.tabs('option', 'selected');

So I’d like to do something like

$leftTab = $tabs.getTabByIndex(selectedIndex - 1);

Is there something approximating this? Or is there another way of doing this?

Answer 1

Assuming $tabs is the container around your tab div elements, try this:

$leftTab = $("div", $tabs).eq(selectedIndex - 1);