Yes, I know what you mean, but I need the tabs to be populated when the user navigates to them and, AFAIK, there is no "tab clicked" event. If there was, I would get the initial/default HTML for each tab page at that time.
As of now, I'm responding to the user selecting an item from a drop-down within each tab, which works fine, but *before* they make a selection, I've got to show them something. And so it seems I have to populate each tab with some default data.
Unless, as I said, there really *is* an event I can hook up or bind to that fires when a user clicks a tab. That would be perfect.
What I have is three tabs: Books, Movies, Music. Each tab has a selection drop-down with four selections (e.g., for books, it's Pulitzers, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Awards, and NOBA). When a selection is made, I wipe out the previous contents and load the new (I just learned about replaceWith() and may switch to using that).