Better jQuery Tabs Plugin

Delicious, light and sugar-free

This is a tight little jQuery tabs plugin that will activate and prevent scroll on load when there’s a URL hash, or do nothing if the hash isn’t one the tabs. It’ll also check if there are links to other tabs in the content. It’s got object literal organization and a little fun progressive enhancement.

Once again, I found a standard-use script lacking magic, and this time it was my group’s go-to tabs plugin. It used a standard flavor of JS without leveraging any library, and it was bad. Switching between tabs took about a second, and even more was added to page load.

By using jQuery, we can cut that to a tiny fraction, while still keeping all the same functionality. Read More »