what does .tabs("disable") do?

what does .tabs("disable") do?

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">What does .tabs("disable") do?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/#method-disable"> http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/#method-disable</a></span></div>
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">When you switch tabs, the hash in location bar does change? <br clear="all">
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