How to make bootstrap tabs remain active/selected after navigating to different web pages.

Bootstrap tabs gets unselected/inactive when user navigates to other page and comes back. How to make bootstrap tabs remain active/selected after navigating to different web pages.

Steps :> 1: Add class dashboard_tabs_cl to <ul>.

<!-- Nav tabs -->
<ul class="nav nav-tabs dashboard_tabs_cl" role="tablist">

2: Add javascript to the page.

<?php $this->registerJs(
'$("document").ready(function(){
	if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined") {
				
		var dash_localVar = localStorage.getItem("dash_activ_tab"+getUrlPath());
		if(dash_localVar){

			$(".dashboard_tabs_cl > li").removeClass("active");
			$(".tab-content > div").removeClass("active");

			var hrefAttr = "a[href=\'"+dash_localVar+"\']";
			if( $(hrefAttr).parent() ){
				$(hrefAttr).parent().addClass("active");
				$(""+dash_localVar+"").addClass("active");
			}
				
		}

		$(".dashboard_tabs_cl a").click(function (e) {
			//alert(window.location.pathname);					
			e.preventDefault();
			localStorage.setItem("dash_activ_tab"+getUrlPath(), $( this ).attr( "href" ));
		});
		function getUrlPath(){
			var returnVar = "_indexpg";
			var splitStr = window.location.href;
			var asdf = splitStr.split("?r=");
			if(asdf[1]){
				var furthrSplt = asdf[1].split("&");
				if(furthrSplt[0]){
					returnVar = furthrSplt[0];
				}else{
					returnVar = asdf[1];
				}
			}
			return returnVar;
		}
	}
	});'
); ?>

Done!.

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Last updated by: emrald
Created on: Oct 3, 2016
Last updated: 4 years ago
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