Question

I’m currently using tabs with Twitter Bootstrap and want to select the same tab after a user has posted data and the page reloads.

How is this done?

My current call to inti the tabs looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('#profileTabs a:first').tab('show');
});
</script>

My tabs:

<ul id="profileTabs" class="nav nav-tabs">
    <li class="active"><a href="#profile" data-toggle="tab">Profile</a></li>
    <li><a href="#about" data-toggle="tab">About Me</a></li>
    <li><a href="#match" data-toggle="tab">My Match</a></li>
</ul>

Answer 1

You’ll have to use localStorage or cookies to manage that. Here’s a quick and dirty solution that can be vastly improved, but may give you a starting point:

$(function() { 
    // for bootstrap 3 use 'shown.bs.tab', for bootstrap 2 use 'shown' in the next line
    $('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
        // save the latest tab; use cookies if you like 'em better:
        localStorage.setItem('lastTab', $(this).attr('href'));
    });

    // go to the latest tab, if it exists:
    var lastTab = localStorage.getItem('lastTab');
    if (lastTab) {
        $('[href="' + lastTab + '"]').tab('show');
    }
});