javascript - Twitter Bootstrap Dropdown with Tabs inside

Question

I'm trying to make a dropdown menu with tabs inside of it. The problem is the dropdown closes when I click a tab. See this demo: http://jsfiddle.net/timrpeterson/pv2Lc/2/. (code reproduced below).

The cited suggestion to stopPropagation() on the tabs anchors doesn't seem to help. Is there a better way?

<script src='http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js'></script>
<link href='http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css' rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

<div class="dropdown">
  <a id="dLabel" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" data-target="#" href="/page.html">
    Dropdown <span class="caret"></span>
  </a>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dLabel">

    <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
      <li class="active"><a href="#home" data-toggle="tab">Home</a>           </li>
      <li><a href="#profile" data-toggle="tab">Profile</a></li>
      <li><a href="#messages" data-toggle="tab">Messages</a></li>
    </ul>

    <!-- Tab panes -->
    <div class="tab-content">
      <div class="tab-pane active" id="home">HOME asdfasdfsda</div>
      <div class="tab-pane" id="profile">PROFILE asdfafas</div>
      <div class="tab-pane" id="messages">MESSAGES asdfdas</div>
    </div>
  </ul>
</div>

Answer 1

The cited suggestion doesn't work because the .tab('show') method should be invoked on the actual tab (i.e., the link) instead of the tab pane.

So the code should be:

$('.dropdown-menu a[data-toggle="tab"]').click(function (e) {
    e.stopPropagation()        
    $(this).tab('show')
})

Here is an updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pv2Lc/6/