Question

I’m using jquery tabs on a web page and when the page is refreshed it loses what ever tab I had been on and goes back to the first tab.

Has anyone come across this problem and know how to solve it?

Answer 1

I assume that you are using jQuery UI tabs ,

here is an example of using tabs + cookies to save the last clicked tab

http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/#cookie

demo :
open this link
http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/cookie.html

the close it and re open it and you will see the same clicked tab

update:
after 3 years of this answer jquery ui has deprecated the cookie option : http://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#deprecated-cookie-option.

but you can still append take a look here if this fits your needs or not https://stackoverflow.com/a/14313315/109217