jQuery UI tabs: get current tab index

Question

I want to get the index of the current tab using jQuery UI tabs: especially when the show or select events are fired i want to know the tab thay are referred is this possible?

Answer 1

You can use this to find

var $tabs = $('#tab').tabs();
var selected = $tabs.tabs('option', 'selected');

From JQuery 1.9 on

var $tabs = $('#tab').tabs();
var selected = $tabs.tabs('option', 'active');