How can I change tab using jquery?

[tomphantoo]

Upon clicking a relevant link, I'd like to be able to select/activate a tab directly, instead of reloading an entire page, with an 'active-tab-name' parameter. This relates to tabs of an admin page, so jquery is present, in my case, jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js.

The documented approach, something like

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 $('#page_tabs').tabs('select',indx);

doesn't work.

Any suggestions?