Stay on a current tab after after submitting a form using jQuery

Question

I\'m trying to stay on a specif tab ( in this case tab2 ) but after clicking the submit button the tab reverts to tab 1 which has the default class of active. I have hit a b

Answer 1

            
Tab 1
            
Tab 2
        

 

The jQuery function:
$(document).ready(function(){
        $("#tab").tabs();
        var param = $(document).getUrlParam('tab');
        if (param !=null)
            $("#tab").tabs('select',param);
        else 
            $("#tab").tabs();
    });