change jquery current tab on button click from a iframe

Question

I have a iframe in one of the jQuery ui tabs opened which has a button on click of which i need to switch to another tab

I tried using

$( "#tabs" ).tabs( "select" , 1 )

But it seems that I can not access the tabs outside iframe

You should take a look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689145/pass-jquery-variables-between-iframe-and-parent — Michael Laffargue, Mar 16 '12 at 10:10

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '12 at 10:19

3

Try

window.parent.$("#tabs").tabs("select",1);

answered Mar 16 '12 at 10:19

Hardik Bhalani

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 16 '12 at 10:19

0

You should tell your function to look at the parent of the iframe

$("#tabs", parent.document.body).tabs( "select" , 1 );

answered Mar 16 '12 at 10:19

Nicola Peluchetti

2 Answers2