Tabs: Use aria-controls instead of the anchor's href to match against location.hash. Fixes #8660 - Tabs: Set initial active tab from location hash for ajax tabs.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js b/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js
index baf55d8dc..7d38fb46e 100644
--- a/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js
+++ b/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.js
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ $.widget( "ui.tabs", {
 		var panel,
 			that = this,
 			options = this.options,
-			active = options.active;
+			active = options.active,
+			locationHash = location.hash.substring( 1 );
 
 		this.running = false;
 
@@ -80,9 +81,9 @@ $.widget( "ui.tabs", {
 
 		if ( active === null ) {
 			// check the fragment identifier in the URL
-			if ( location.hash ) {
-				this.anchors.each(function( i, anchor ) {
-					if ( anchor.hash === location.hash ) {
+			if ( locationHash ) {
+				this.tabs.each(function( i, tab ) {
+					if ( $( tab ).attr( "aria-controls" ) === locationHash ) {
 						active = i;
 						return false;
 					}