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jquery tab plugin provides a means to dynamically add a tab, but without any evident mechanism to determine the id of the tab. My use case required the population of that panel using
Lift AJAX, which requires the id to identify the html element to be modified.
Only the tabTemplate accepts parameters, so that mechanism does not suffice. The template mechanism is now depreciated, which would eliminate it from consideration even if the the panelTemplate accepted parameters.
The assigned id turns out to be the fragment id iff a fragment URL is specified on the add call. Specifying a full URL causes a sequential, jquery generated id to be assigned.
Dynamically creating the tab and populating can thus be done using
JsRaw("$('#tabs').tabs( 'add', '#" + id + "', 'title' )") &
SetHtml(id, Id is{id})