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I recommend you track down in which version the change(s) occurred, between 1.8.1 and 1.8.9. That should be fairly simple with your demo. Then you can track down which changes were made to the tabs widget in that release by

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Changelog/1.8.4#Tabs
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Changelog/1.8.5#Tabs
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Changelog/1.8.6#Tabs
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Changelog/1.8.7#Tabs
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Changelog/1.8.9#Tabs

(I've removed the changelogs in that range that contain no changes to tabs)

Once you've got a version you think contains the regression you can use the github commit diff linked from each fix in the changelog to isolate the specific bug fixes that caused the regression. Once you identify that you should be able to come up with a minimal test page showing the regression and we can see whether that bug should be reopened or a new one created.

Your code produces invalid HTML. You can't place elements between the ul and the li.

Thanks @scott.gonzalez, i am totally aware of that but there is no other way around to have scrollable tabs.