check if jQuery UI tabs have been initialized (without checking for class)

Question

Using jQuery UI tabs - and I\'ve written a plugin that integrates with ui tabs. I\'ve got the plugin setup to initiate jQuery UI tabs if it .tabs() hasn\'t been

Answer 1

somehow it causes some error when i try to check the instance.

i need to reinitialize the tabs and for me a try catch did the trick:

try {
    $('.mytabs').tabs('destroy');
} catch (exception) {}

and after that just initialize again:

$('.mytabs').tabs();