[wp-hackers] How do you get jQuery tabs working in Wordpress 2.8?

[Heiko Rabe]

It's very easy to write code that works for WP 2.7 and Wp 2.8 accourding 
to jQuery Tabs.
I wrote an article (sorry german only) but the essentials are this:

//jQuery UI 1.5.2 doesn’t expect tab ID’s at DIV, so we have to apply a 
hotfix instead
var *needs_jquery_hotfix* = (($.ui.version === undefined) || 
(parseInt($.ui.version.split(’.')[1]) < 7));
$("#tabs"+(*needs_jquery_hotfix* ? “>ul” : “”)).tabs({
//do you init stuff here
});

To test the UI instead of jQuery is the better way, because the tabs 
component inherits from rewritten jQuery widget class.
Also some more patches can be easly applied against a older UI version 
to work as it would be a 1.7+ version.

regards


Andrew Ozz schrieb:
> Dylan Kuhn wrote:
>> I found by experimenting that in jQuery 1.3.x I have to select the 
>> container
>> of the tab UL, whereas in 1.2.x I had been selecting the UL itself.
>
> Yes, jQuery UI Tabs has some changes in UI 1.7.1 and is not used in 
> 2.8 any more. If you only need basic tab switching it takes only 
> couple of lines of js to do directly in jQuery and would be compatible 
> with both 1.2 and 1.3.
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