Jquery How maintain state between postbacks in jquery? - jquery-ui

Question

I'm using jquery tab and following js method, how and what can i modify it to maintain state of tab between postbacks? (This resets tabs to first tab after page_load)
$(document).ready(function() { //When page loads...
$(".tab_content").hide(); //Hide all content
$("ul.tabs li:first").addClass("active").show(); //Activate first tab $(".tab_content:first").show(); //Show first tab content //On Click Event $("ul.tabs li").click(function() {
$("ul.tabs li").removeClass("active"); //Remove any "active" class
$(this).addClass("active"); //Add "active" class to selected tab $(".tab_content").hide(); //Hide all tab content
var activeTab = $(this).find("a").attr("href"); //Find the href attribute value to identify the active tab + content
$(activeTab).fadeIn(); //Fade in the active ID content return false; });

Answer 1

I ran across this problem when I first started using jQuery. My solution was to use an <asp:HiddenField /> to store the active tab index on tabselect.
ASP.Net allows client-side code to modify an <asp:HiddenField /> so it will retain its value across postbacks.
On document.ready, simply restore the active tab by setting the selected tab during intialization:
Example:
$('div#divMyTabs').tabs({
selected: function () {
var tabFromPostback = $('input#<%=hfActiveTab.ClientID %>').val();
return tabFromPostback === '' ? 0 : tabFromPostback; //Default to first.
},
select: function (e, ui) {
$('input#<%=hfActiveTab.ClientID %>').val(ui.index);
}
});