Twitter Bootstrap Tabs href="#" anchor tag jumping

Question

I am using TW Bootstrap's tabs to tab through content on my clients' site I have set the HTML Markup to remove the "data-toggle" as I need to intialise the jScrollpane library on click.

I have got this to work, However when you click one of the navigation icons the page jumps down.

How do I avoid this from happening?

My markup is as follows :

HTML

<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
          <li class="home_tab active"><a href="#home"></a></li>
          <li class="about_tab"><a href="#about"></a></li>
          <li class="services_tab"><a href="#services"></a></li>
          <li class="cases_tab"><a href="#case_studies"></a></li>
          <li class="contact_tab"><a href="#contact_us"></a></li>
          <li class="news_tab"><a href="#news"></a></li>
</ul>

<div class="tab-content">
          <div id="home" class="tab-pane active scroll_tab">
            <?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
            <h2>
              <?php the_title(); ?>
            </h2>
            <?php the_content(); ?>
            <?php endwhile; ?>
          </div>
          <div id="about" class="tab-pane">
            <?php 
                $page_id = 9; 
                $page_data = get_page( $page_id ); 
                echo '<h2>'. $page_data->post_title .'</h2>';// echo the title
                echo apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content); // echo the content and retain Wordpress filters such as paragraph tags. 
            ?>
          </div>
          <div id="services" class="tab-pane">
          <div class="signs">
            <ul class="nav-tabs sub_tabs">
                <li class="roll_labels"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#roll_labels"></a></li>
                <li class="sheeted_labels"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#page1"></a></li>
                <li class="fanfold_labels"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#page1"></a></li>
                <li class="printers"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#page1"></a></li>
            </ul>
          </div>
            <?php 
                $page_id = 11; 
                $page_data = get_page( $page_id ); 
                echo '<h2>'. $page_data->post_title .'</h2>';// echo the title
            echo apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content); // echo the content and retain Wordpress filters such as paragraph tags. 
        ?>
      </div>
      <div id="case_studies" class="tab-pane">
        <?php 
            $page_id = 13; 
            $page_data = get_page( $page_id ); 
            echo '<h2>'. $page_data->post_title .'</h2>';// echo the title
            echo apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content); // echo the content and retain Wordpress filters such as paragraph tags. 
        ?>
      </div>
      <div id="contact_us" class="tab-pane">
        <?php 
            $page_id = 15; 
            $page_data = get_page( $page_id ); 
            echo '<h2>'. $page_data->post_title .'</h2>';// echo the title
            echo apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content); // echo the content and retain Wordpress filters such as paragraph tags. 
        ?>
      </div>
      <div id="news" class="tab-pane">
        <?php 
            $page_id = 144; 
            $page_data = get_page( $page_id ); 
            echo '<h2>'. $page_data->post_title .'</h2>';// echo the title 
        ?>
        <?php
          // Load Latest Blog - Limited to 2 items                                         
          $recent = new WP_Query("tags=blog&showposts=2"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
      <div class="news_excerpt">
          <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
          <p><?php echo limit_words(get_the_excerpt(), '40'); ?> ...</p>
          <a data-toggle="modal" href="#newsModal-<? the_ID(); ?>" id="newspopup">
                    <img src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/assets/img/content/team_read_more.png" alt="Read More" style="border:none;">
          </a>
          <div class="modal hide fade" id="newsModal-<? the_ID(); ?>">
            <div class="modal-header">
              <button data-dismiss="modal" class="close">×</button>
              <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">
                <p><?php the_post_thumbnail('news_image'); ?></p>
                <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <?php endwhile; ?>
      </div>           
      </div>
      <div id="roll_labels" class="tab-pane">
        <?php 
            $page_id = 109; 
            $page_data = get_page( $page_id ); 
            echo '<h2>'. $page_data->post_title .'</h2>';// echo the title
            echo apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content); // echo the content and retain Wordpress filters such as paragraph tags. 
        ?>
      </div>
    </div>

jQuery

$('.nav-tabs li a').click(function (e) {
        $(this).tab('show');
        $('.tab-content > .tab-pane.active').jScrollPane();
    });

Like I say, How do I prevent the page content from "jumping" to the anchor? Many Thanks..

Answer 1

Using data-target instead of href seems to work with bootstrap 3 pills and tabs. If the mouse curser doesn't change due to the fact that there is no href attribute, then you could add a bit of css

EDIT: Code added as per request below, note lack of a target on the href and the addition of data-target="#...

      <ul class="nav nav-tabs" >
     <li class="active"><a href="#" data-target="#tab_id_1" data-toggle="tab"> Tab Name 1</a></li>
     <li><a href="#" data-target="#tab_id_2" data-toggle="tab"> Tab Name 2 </a></li>
    </ul>
     <div class="tab-content"> 
         <div id="tab_id_1" class="tab-pane active">
              CONTENT 1
          </div>
          <div id="tab_id_2" class="tab-pane">
              CONTENT 2
          </div>
    </div>

Answer 2

I have found a very simple solution. I just add another # in the tabs href:

<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
          <li class="home_tab active"><a href="##home"></a></li>
          <li class="about_tab"><a href="##about"></a></li>
          <li class="services_tab"><a href="##services"></a></li>
          ...
</ul>

I don't know if it's the best solution, but for sure is quick and easy. In my case it works on Chrome and IE 10 and for my requirements it's enough.