[html] Twitter Bootstrap tabs not working: when I click on them nothing happens

I am trying to implement Twitter Bootstrap tabs in the following code, but it does not seem to work. The tabs get displayed, but when I click on them nothing happens. Below is the only code I am using. All the other CSS/JS scripts are copied from Twitter Bootstrap framework.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- Le styles -->
<link href="assets/twitterbootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="assets/twitterbootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet">

</head>

<body data-spy="scroll" data-target=".subnav" data-offset="50">

<div class="container">

<!-------->
<div id="content">
    <ul class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs">
        <li class="active"><a href="#red">Red</a></li>
        <li><a href="#orange">Orange</a></li>
        <li><a href="#yellow">Yellow</a></li>
        <li><a href="#green">Green</a></li>
        <li><a href="#blue">Blue</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div id="my-tab-content" class="tab-content">
        <div class="tab-pane active" id="red">
            <h1>Red</h1>
            <p>red red red red red red</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="orange">
            <h1>Orange</h1>
            <p>orange orange orange orange orange</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="yellow">
            <h1>Yellow</h1>
            <p>yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="green">
            <h1>Green</h1>
            <p>green green green green green</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="blue">
            <h1>Blue</h1>
            <p>blue blue blue blue blue</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
        $(".tabs").tabs();
    });
</script>    
</div> <!-- container -->

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/twitterbootstrap/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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I have the same problem, but above some answers might be tricky for me.

I found the other answer maybe solve your question Twitter Bootstrap Js (tabs, popups, dropdown) not working in Drupal

place jquery.js before bootstrap.tab.js


Had a problem with Bootstrap tabs recently following their online guidelines, but there's currently an error in their markup example data-tabs="tabs" is missing on <ul> element. Without it using data-toggle on links doesn't work.


I tried the codes from bootstrap's document as follows:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>tab demo</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="bootstrap.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="span9">
    <div class="tabbable"> <!-- Only required for left/right tabs -->
      <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
        <li class="active"><a href="#tab1" data-toggle="tab">Section 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Section 2</a></li>
      </ul>
      <div class="tab-content">
        <div class="tab-pane active" id="tab1">
          <p>I'm in Section 1.</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="tab2">
          <p>Howdy, I'm in Section 2.</p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
</div> 
<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="bootstrap.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

and it works. But when I switch these two <script src...>'s postion, it do not work. So please remember to load your jquery script before bootstrap.js.


This solved it when none of the other examples did:

$('#myTab a').click(function (e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  $(this).tab('show');
});

i had the same problem until i downloaded bootstrap-tab.js and included it in my script, download from here https://code.google.com/p/fusionleaf/source/browse/webroot/fusionleaf/com/www/inc/bootstrap/js/bootstrap-tab.js?r=82aacd63ee1f7f9a15ead3574fe2c3f45b5c1027

include the bootsrap-tab.js in the just below the jquery

<script type="text/javascript" src="bootstrap/js/bootstrap-tab.js"></script>

Final Code Looked like this:

 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script type="text/javascript" src="libraries/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="bootstrap/js/bootstrap-tab.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container">

<!-------->
<div id="content">
    <ul id="tabs" class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs">
        <li class="active"><a href="#red" data-toggle="tab">Red</a></li>
        <li><a href="#orange" data-toggle="tab">Orange</a></li>
        <li><a href="#yellow" data-toggle="tab">Yellow</a></li>
        <li><a href="#green" data-toggle="tab">Green</a></li>
        <li><a href="#blue" data-toggle="tab">Blue</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div id="my-tab-content" class="tab-content">
        <div class="tab-pane active" id="red">
            <h1>Red</h1>
            <p>red red red red red red</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="orange">
            <h1>Orange</h1>
            <p>orange orange orange orange orange</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="yellow">
            <h1>Yellow</h1>
            <p>yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="green">
            <h1>Green</h1>
            <p>green green green green green</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="blue">
            <h1>Blue</h1>
            <p>blue blue blue blue blue</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>


<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
        $('#tabs').tab();
    });
</script>    
</div> <!-- container -->


<script type="text/javascript" src="bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js"></script>

</body>
</html>

Actually, there is another easy way to do it. It works for me but I'm not sure for you guys. The key thing here, is just adding the FADE in each (tab-pane) and it will works. Besides, you don't even need to script function or whatever version of jQuery. Here is my code...hope it will works for you all.

<div class="tab-pane fade" id="Customer">
    <table class="table table-hover table-bordered">
        <tr>
            <th width="40%">Contact Person</th>
            <td><?php echo $event['Event']['e_contact_person']; ?></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="Delivery">
    <table class="table table-hover table-bordered">
        <tr>
            <th width="40%">Time Arrive Warehouse Start</th>
            <td><?php echo $event['Event']['e_time_arrive_WH_start']; ?></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>

For me, the problem was that I wasn't including bootstrap.min.css (I was only including bootstrap-responsive.min.css).


You're missing the data-toggle="tab" data-tag on your menu urls so your scripts can't tell where your tab switches are:

HTML

<ul class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs">
    <li class="active"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#red">Red</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#orange">Orange</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#yellow">Yellow</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#green">Green</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#blue">Blue</a></li>
</ul>

I just fixed this issue by adding data-toggle="tab" element in anchor tag

<div class="container">

<!-------->
  <div id="content">

   <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
<li class="active"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#red">Red</a></li>
<li><a data-toggle="tab"  href="#orange">Orange</a></li>
<li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#yellow">Yellow</a></li>
<li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#green">Green</a></li>
<li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#blue">Blue</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content">
<div class="tab-pane active" id="red">
    <h1>Red</h1>
    <p>red red red red red red</p>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane" id="orange">
    <h1>Orange</h1>
    <p>orange orange orange orange orange</p>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane" id="yellow">
    <h1>Yellow</h1>
    <p>yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow</p>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane" id="green">
    <h1>Green</h1>
    <p>green green green green green</p>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane" id="blue">
    <h1>Blue</h1>
    <p>blue blue blue blue blue</p>

and added the following in head section http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.js'>


Since i'm working with Bootstrap Javascript Modules instead of loading the entire Bootstrap Javascript, my tabs were not working because i forgot to load load/include/ the node_modules/bootstrap/js/tab.js file.

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After including it, it worked...

Good Luck


Just copy the script tag for adding the bootstrap.js from the head section to the end of the body. Then everything should work fine even without the scripts to activate the tabs.


The key elements include:

  1. the class="nav nav-tabs" and data-tabs="tabs" of ul
  2. the data-toggle="tab" and href="#orange" of the a
  3. the class="tab-content" of the div of the content
  4. the class="tab-pane" and id of the div of the items

The complete code is as below:

<ul class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs">
    <li class="active"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#red">Red</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#orange">Orange</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#yellow">Yellow</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#green">Green</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#blue">Blue</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content">
    <div class="tab-pane active" id="red">
        <h1>Red</h1>
        <p>red red red red red red</p>
    </div>
    <div class="tab-pane" id="orange">
        <h1>Orange</h1>
        <p>orange orange orange orange orange</p>
    </div>
    <div class="tab-pane" id="yellow">
        <h1>Yellow</h1>
        <p>yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow</p>
    </div>
    <div class="tab-pane" id="green">
        <h1>Green</h1>
        <p>green green green green green</p>
    </div>
    <div class="tab-pane" id="blue">
        <h1>Blue</h1>
        <p>blue blue blue blue blue</p>
    </div>
</div>