jquery-ui .tabs ajax load specific content of page?

Question

I'm trying to use jQuery UI's .tabs() to obtain content via AJAX, but the default behavior is to grab the entire page's content. How would I obtain content from a specific #id and/or multiple #id's?

I have a feeling I will need to use the load: event (http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs#event-load), but I need an assist figuring this out.

Example:

The Page with the tabs that is getting and displaying the tabbed content. I have placed #content after the first #the_tabs link to retrieve in an attempt to obtain that specific region of the content, but the entire page is still loaded.

<div id="tabs">

    <div id="tabs_display">

    </div>

    <ul id="the_tabs">
        <li><a href="testcontent.html#content" title="tabs display"><span>1</span></a></li>
        <li><a href="testcontent2.html" title="tabs display"><span>2</span></a></li>
        <li><a href="testcontent.html" title="tabs display"><span>3</span></a></li>
        <li><a href="testcontent2.html" title="tabs display"><span>4</span></a></li>
   </ul>

</div><!-- /#tabs -->

The page being retrieved by the previous markup:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Remote HTML Page Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            I want this content
        </div>
        <div id="other_stuff">
            Not this content    
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

the JS (for setup purposes):

$(document).ready(function(){

    /* Tabs
    --------------------*/
    $(function() {

        var $tabs = $('#tabs').tabs({

        });

    });

});

Jungle Editor · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-07 11:10:14Z

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In Jquery-UI 1.9, "ajaxOptions" is depreciated; so instead the code below worked for me: (ref: http://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#deprecated-ajaxoptions-and-cache-options-added-beforeload-event)

$(function() {
    $( "#the_tabs" ).tabs({
            beforeLoad: function( event, ui ) {
                    ui.ajaxSettings.dataType = 'html';
                    ui.ajaxSettings.dataFilter = function(data) {
                            return $(data).filter("#content").html();
                    };
            }      
    });
});

answered Mar 7, 2013 at 11:10

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Update: return $(data).find('#content'); also worked better in my case. Whether to use filter or find, seems to depend on the structure of the HTML returned: stackoverflow.com/questions/4245231/…

tester · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-11 01:34:13Z

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$(document).ready(function(){

/* Tabs
--------------------*/
var $tabs = $('#the_tabs').tabs({
    ajaxOptions: {
        dataFilter: function(data, type){
            return $(data).filter("#content").html();
        }
    }
});

});

Solution props to Supavisah in #jquery on irc.freenode.net

answered Oct 11, 2009 at 1:34

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wjdennen · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-29 17:15:00Z

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I have had luck using .find, rather than .filter. Like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
$('#the_tabs').tabs({           
        ajaxOptions: {
                cache : true,
                dataFilter: function(data){
                        return $(data).find('#content');
                },
        }
});    
});

answered Jan 29, 2011 at 17:15

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