Cookies and javascript navigation (tabs)

I have a navigation tabs and when us开发者_StackOverflower clicks a tab the div changes with ajax. I would like to it to remember on what tab user was when user changes page. I havent done the tab navigation and im totally new to javascript/jquery. Here is the javascript for the tabs:

 jQuery('#contentContainer #tabNavi .nav-item').each(function(i, item) {
        jQuery(item).bind('click', function() {
            if (jQuery('a', this).hasClass('activeTab')) {
                return;
            } else {
                jQuery('#contentContainer #tabNavi .nav-item' a').removeClass('activeTab').eq(i).addClass('activeTab');
                channel_id = jQuery('a', this).attr('href').split('#')[1];
                if (channel_id == _channel) {
                    return;
                }

            }
        })
    });

The nav links are like this:

<li><a href="#39">Link1</a></li>
<li><a href="#53">Link2</a></li

Now I have the href value saved in a cookie but i dont know how can i change the active class to right li item when user comes on page and he has been on site before and he has clicked some tab.

Put this code after click event initialization (jQuery(item).bind('click', function() {...})

var selectedTab = $.cookie('selectedTab');

if (selectedTab) {
    $('li[href="' + selectedTab + '"]').click();
}

UPD

A bit modified code

(function($) {

    $('#contentContainer #tabNavi .nav-item a').click(function() {

        var $link = $(this);
        $link.click(function() {
            if (!$link.hasClass('activeTab')) {
                $('#contentContainer #tabNavi .nav-item a.activeTab').removeClass('activeTab');
                $link.addClass('activeTab');
                $.cookie('selected-tab', $link.attr('href'));
            }

            return false;
        });

    });

    var selectedTab = $.cookie('selected-tab');
    if (selectedTab) {
        $('#contentContainer #tabNavi .nav-item a[href="' + selectedTab + '"]').click();
    }

})(jQuery);