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 code selects the right tab depending on the #hash and adds the right #hash when a tab is clicked. (this uses jquery)

In Coffeescript :

$(document).ready ->
    if location.hash != ''
        $('a[href="'+location.hash+'"]').tab('show')

    $('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on 'shown', (e) ->
        location.hash = $(e.target).attr('href').substr(1)

or in JS :

$(document).ready(function() {
    if (location.hash !== '') $('a[href="' + location.hash + '"]').tab('show');
    return $('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('shown', function(e) {
      return location.hash = $(e.target).attr('href').substr(1);
    });
});

Answer 2

I know this thread is very old, but I'll leave here my own implementation:

$(function () {
  // some initialization code

  addTabBehavior()
})

// Initialize events and change tab on first page load.
function addTabBehavior() {
  $('.nav-tabs a').on('show.bs.tab', e => {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace('nav-', '')
  })

  $(window).on('popstate', e => {
    changeTab()
  })

  changeTab()
}

// Change the current tab and URL hash; if don't have any hash
// in URL, so activate the first tab and update the URL hash.
function changeTab() {
  const hash = getUrlHash()

  if (hash) {
    $(`.nav-tabs a[href="#nav-${hash}"]`).tab('show')
  } else {
    $('.nav-tabs a').first().tab('show')
  }
}

// Get the hash from URL. Ex: www.example.com/#tab1
function getUrlHash() {
  return window.location.hash.slice(1)
}

Note that I'm using a nav- class prefix to nav links.

Answer 3

I would suggest you use the code provided by Bootstrap authors on their issue tracker on GitHub:

var hash = location.hash
  , hashPieces = hash.split('?')
  , activeTab = $('[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
activeTab && activeTab.tab('show');

You can find on the link to the issue more information about why they didn't choose to support that.

Answer 4

$(function(){
  var hash = window.location.hash;
  hash && $('ul.nav a[href="' + hash + '"]').tab('show');
});

This code from http://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2415#issuecomment-4450768 worked for me perfectly.

Answer 5

Combining peices from other answers, here is a solution that can open many levels of nested tabs:

// opens all tabs down to the specified tab
var hash = location.hash.split('?')[0];
if(hash) {
  var $link = $('[href=' + hash + ']');
  var parents = $link.parents('.tab-pane').get();
  $(parents.reverse()).each(function() {
    $('[href=#' + this.id + ']').tab('show') ;
  });
  $link.tab('show');
}

Answer 6

I had to modify some bits for this to work for me. I am using Bootstrap 3 and jQuery 2

// Javascript to enable link to tab
var hash = document.location.hash;
var prefix = "!";
if (hash) {
    hash = hash.replace(prefix,'');
    var hashPieces = hash.split('?');
    activeTab = $('[role="tablist"] a[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
    activeTab && activeTab.tab('show');
}

// Change hash for page-reload
$('[role="tablist"] a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace("#", "#" + prefix);
});