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 works in Bootstrap 3 and improves dubbe and flynfish 's 2 top answers by integrating GarciaWebDev 's answer as well (which allows for url parameters after the hash and is straight from Bootstrap authors on the github issue tracker):

// Javascript to enable link to tab
var hash = document.location.hash;
var prefix = "tab_";

if (hash) {
    hash = hash.replace(prefix,'');
    var hashPieces = hash.split('?');
    activeTab = $('.nav-tabs a[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
    activeTab && activeTab.tab('show');
} 

// Change hash for page-reload
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown', function (e) {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace("#", "#" + prefix);
});