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jQuery UI Tabs event Option

Last Updated : 08 Feb, 2021
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jQuery UI consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using jQuery, CSS, and HTML. jQuery UI is great for building UI interfaces for the webpages. jQuery UI tabs widget helps us to put some content in different tabs and allow us to switch between them. In this article we will see how to use event option in jQuery UI slider.
The event option is a name of the event that lets users select a new tab in jQuery UI. By default, value is “click”

Syntax:

$( ".selector" ).tabs(
   { event : 'click'}
);

Parameters: this action does not accept any parameter.

Approach: First, add jQuery UI scripts needed for your project.

<link href = “https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css” rel = “stylesheet”>
<script src = “https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js”></script>
<script src = “https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example:

HTML




<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
  
    <link href=
        rel="stylesheet">
  
    <script src=
    </script>
  
    <script src=
    </script>
  
    <script>
        $(function () {
            $("#gfg").tabs({
                event: 'mouseover'
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
  
<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h3>jQuery UI tabs event option</h3>
  
    <div id="gfg">
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#gfg1">Tab 1</a></li>
            <li><a href="#gfg2">Tab 2</a></li>
            <li><a href="#gfg3">Tab 3</a></li>
        </ul>
        <div id="gfg1">
            <p>tab Number -1</p>
        </div>
  
        <div id="gfg2">
            <p>tab Number -2</p>
        </div>
  
        <div id="gfg3">
            <p>tab Number -3</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
  
</html>


Output:



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