Working example: http://www.williamworley.com/jquery/createposting.php
So I seemed to have figured out a way to get this to work correctly but its more code than I would like for using jquery. Basically what I've done is make it so you have form validation using Jorns Validation Plugin per tab when using the jquery tabs. There are a few issues though Issues: A lot of code to do something this simple All tabs to the right of the current tab have to be disabled due to me not being able to get the first invalid element focus to work (switch to the tab with the invalid element). Please let me know if anyone has a cleaner (less code) way to validate per tab or get the focus first invalid element working.