identical IDs or classes? an id should be unique, a class if for applying to multiple elements. if the tabs have unique ids you can just give all the fields a class based on type and use a selector explicitly naming the parent element
$('div#firstTab input.emailAddress').val() would get the value of a text input with a class of emailAddress from the div with the id firstTab. On Mar 10, 11:38 am, OtakuD <ota...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm seems like I spoke too soon! (-.-) > > Well it works fine so long as the three different jQuery UI tabs do > not have identically named inputs, or at least thats how it seems. > Each of my tabs is used for either editing, creating or deleting a > record from the database so identical fields are bound to happen, how > can I stop this from occurring and let my 3 tabs act independently of > one another?