How to load Bootstrap tab panel with tab click?

Question

I'm using Bootstrap tab panels on the site like that:

<!-- Nav tabs -->
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
  <li role="presentation" class="active"><a href="#chartcontainer1" aria-controls="chartcontainer1" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Chart 1</a></li>
  <li role="presentation"><a href="#chartcontainer2" aria-controls="chartcontainer2" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Chart 2</a></li>
</ul>

<!-- Tab panes -->
<div class="tab-content">
  <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane active" id="chartcontainer1">
      <div id="layeredcolumnchart"></div>
  </div>
  <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="chartcontainer2">
      <div id="piechart"></div>
  </div>
</div>

What I want to do is to load the non active panels on tab click.

(Now, it loads every panels on page load.)

Note: Show-hide is not a solution for me and what I want to show is not an external URL. It's a div (included some JS) from the current page.

Answer 1

If you wish to load the tab panel content on click of the tab, you have to use Ajax for same.

Here is an example.

HTML Code

<ul class="nav nav-tabs tabs-up" id="friends">
  <li><a href="/gh/gist/response.html/3843293/" data-target="#contacts" class="media_node active span" id="contacts_tab" data-toggle="tabajax" rel="tooltip"> Contacts </a></li>
  <li><a href="/gh/gist/response.html/3843301/" data-target="#friends_list" class="media_node span" id="friends_list_tab" data-toggle="tabajax" rel="tooltip"> Friends list</a></li>
  <li><a href="/gh/gist/response.html/3843306/" data-target="#awaiting_request" class="media_node span" id="awaiting_request_tab" data-toggle="tabajax" rel="tooltip">Awaiting request</a></li>
</ul>

<div class="tab-content">
<div class="tab-pane active" id="contacts">

  </div>
  <div class="tab-pane" id="friends_list">

  </div>
  <div class="tab-pane  urlbox span8" id="awaiting_request">

  </div>
</div>

Javascript Code

$('[data-toggle="tabajax"]').click(function(e) {
var $this = $(this),
    loadurl = $this.attr('href'),
    targ = $this.attr('data-target');

$.get(loadurl, function(data) {
    $(targ).html(data);
});

$this.tab('show');
return false;
});

Click here to view the Demo on JSFiddle:-