Twitter Bootstrap Tabs: Go to Specific Tab on Page Reload or Hyperlink

Question

I\'m developing a web page in which I\'m using Twitter\'s Bootstrap Framework and their Bootstrap Tabs JS. It works great except for a few minor issues, one of which is I do

Answer 1

This is an improved implementation of dubbe's solution which prevent scrolling.

// Javascript to enable link to tab
var url = document.location.toString();
if (url.match('#')) {
    $('.nav-tabs a[href="#'+url.split('#')[1]+'"]').tab('show') ;
} 

// With HTML5 history API, we can easily prevent scrolling!
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
    if(history.pushState) {
        history.pushState(null, null, e.target.hash); 
    } else {
        window.location.hash = e.target.hash; //Polyfill for old browsers
    }
})