Tabs: Keep reference to existing tablist during refresh. Fixes #9584 - Tabs: Refresh...

(cherry picked from commit e14f75ed480e5b036bb47ab3398d1e0df28a128a)

diff --git a/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js b/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js
index 4362421db7c6d88fb056b792e72b8f71ceca6d76..27fb88054f1817b8e90ce22f4920dd2cb3d515cf 100644 (file)
--- a/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js
+++ b/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ $.widget( "ui.tabs", {
 
        // allow overriding how to find the list for rare usage scenarios (#7715)
        _getList: function() {
-               return this.element.find( "ol,ul" ).eq( 0 );
+               return this.tablist || this.element.find( "ol,ul" ).eq( 0 );
        },
 
        _createPanel: function( id ) {