How do I open a tab from with jQuery UI Tabs from an link outside of the div?

Question

This may be a little difficult to explain, but I\'ll try my best. I have a product page with two tabs, full description and video. These are done using jQuery UI Tabs.

Answer 1

For jQuery UI 1.11

HTML:

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Open Video Tab

JS:

$('.open-tab').click(function () {
  $("#tabs").tabs('option','active',$('#tabs a.ui-tabs-anchor[href="'+$(this).attr('href')+'"]').index('#tabs a.ui-tabs-anchor'));
});