jQuery tabs. Open certain tab from a certain position. Possible?

I am using jQuery tabs on my site and have an article on one of the tabs and comments on the other. Would it be possible to link from the art开发者_高级运维icle tab to the comments tab and open it from a certain position defined with an "a name" attribute?

The jQuery UI 1.8.4 release added a feature you may be interested in:

TABS
The tabs plugin has been updated to allow accessing tabs by href in addition to index. The enable, disable, select, load, and remove methods all accept the href of a tab.

For example, what you want may look like this:

$("#tabs").tabs("select", "#comments");

For the scrolling you can just do a window.location or use something else like the scrollTo() plugin for more utility.

For example:

$("#tabs").tabs("select", "#comments");
$("#comments").scrollTo("#comment-1234");

You can give it a try here.

Since the tab itself needs to be selected with the hash anchor, you probably can't do it in a straightforward way.

One way to do it though, would be to parse the anchors yourself (with anchors not set to the tab names, but for example tab-name:anchor-name) and then select the correct tab (using the jQuery Tabs API) and scroll to the correct anchor (using javascript).