Comments on: jQuery Form and jQuery UI Tabs: Two great tastes that taste great together

By: JamesDutt

JamesDutt — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:46:59 +0000

Lets say I am on tab3 and i am reloading the page. In my case I am back on tab1. How to make sure tab is selected when the page is reloaded?

By: Vicky Biswas

Vicky Biswas — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:30:30 +0000

You may try a plugin called baby steps which does what you require but in an easier manner

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Devich » Blog Archive » Radio button control — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:14:41 +0000

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By: teeest

teeest — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:15:38 +0000

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By: Brian Dillard

Brian Dillard — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:54:47 +0000

@EdT: Because modern browsers only cache form values across a session for form fields that are part of the DOM before window.onload fires, form values caching is an issue with an Ajax application. In my demo, we only load each tab’s contents once; on subsequent visits to that tab, we just display the existing tab. But in the real world, you would probably reload each tab from the server each time you hit it, and you would use server-side processes to persist the data where possible (that is, where changes to your answers in an earlier step in the process don’t make that problemmatic – e.g. going back to the shipping step and unchecking the “use this as my billing address” boxs).

By: EdT

EdT — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:16:28 +0000

This is great! Thank you! You mention the following, “users could jump back in the process to re-submit one of the earlier forms but couldn’t jump forward to fill out forms out of order.” Is it possible to retain all the steps’ inputted data if, lets say, I’m on step 5 and skip back to step 1 (Step 1-4 would still be populated with what I inputted)?

By: Brian Dillard

Brian Dillard — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:54:29 +0000

@kenman: I should have mentioned that! As with all my tutorials for IBM, I can only cover a few topics in the space allotted. I’m pitching additional topics to IBM and hope to do an additional piece on Ajax history management. I definitely plan to check out jQuery’s history management options, though any published piece will probably focus more on Really Simple History, the Ajax history plugin that I help maintain.

By: kenman

kenman — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:25:23 +0000

That’s a nice form setup you have going. I know its still in the design phase but I’d like to suggest incorporating the jQuery remoting plugin, so that the user’s back button isn’t broken. I hit it half-way through the form, and it brought me back to this page (and of course lost all of my information), when all I wanted to do was go back to the previous tab.