I ended up patching the ui-bootstrap file.
I'm still a noob with AngularJS, so please forgive the lingo.
This is an unconventional hack, and needs to be refactored with ng-animate, but it works.
Open ui-bootstrap-tpls-0.10.0.js and look for the 'tab' directive :
.directive('tab', ['$parse', function($parse) {
return {
require: '^tabset',
restrict: 'EA',
replace: true,
templateUrl: 'template/tabs/tab.html',
transclude: true,
scope: {
id:'@', // PATCH : GETTING TAB 'id' ATTRIBUTE
heading: '@',
onSelect: '&select', //This callback is called in contentHeadingTransclude
//once it inserts the tab's content into the dom
onDeselect: '&deselect'
},
// ...
Notice the extra code for retrieving the id attribute value (via transclusion, I guess).
A few lines below, look for :
scope.$watch('active', function(active) {
and patch it like so :
scope.$watch('active', function(active) {
// Note this watcher also initializes and assigns scope.active to the
// attrs.active expression.
setActive(scope.$parent, active);
if (active) {
tabsetCtrl.select(scope);
scope.onSelect();
tab_id = attrs.id;
$(".tab_pane_"+tab_id).hide(); // HIDE AT FIRST, SO IT CAN ACTUALLY FADE IN
$(".tab_pane_"+tab_id).fadeIn(1000); // JQUERY TARGETING BY CLASS
} else {
scope.onDeselect();
tab_id = attrs.id;
$(".tab_pane_"+tab_id).hide(); // JQUERY TARGETING BY CLASS
}
});
A few lines below, look for :
scope.select = function() {
and add inside :
$(".tab-pane").hide();
so all tab panes hide properly at first.
Then, look for :
angular.module("template/tabs/tabset.html", []).run(["$templateCache", function($templateCache) { ...
and add the css class to the tab-pane element in the corresponding template, like so :
angular.module("template/tabs/tabset.html", []).run(["$templateCache", function($templateCache) {
$templateCache.put("template/tabs/tabset.html",
"\n" +
"<div class=\"tabbable\">\n" +
" <ul class=\"nav {{type && 'nav-' + type}}\" ng-class=\"{'nav-stacked': vertical, 'nav-justified': justified}\" ng-transclude></ul>\n" +
" <div class=\"tab-content\">\n" +
" <div class=\"tab-pane tab_pane_{{tab.id}}\" \n" + // CLASS NAME IS DYNAMIC
" ng-repeat=\"tab in tabs\" \n" +
" ng-class=\"{active: tab.active}\"\n" +
" tab-content-transclude=\"tab\">\n" +
" </div>\n" +
" </div>\n" +
"</div>\n" +
"");
}]);
Once the ui-bootstrap .js file is modified, you must edit your view template (where you fetch the tabs) and declare the 'id' attribute :
<!-- TABS -->
<tabset justified="true">
<tab ng-repeat="tab in tabs" heading="{{tab.title}}" id="{{tab.id}}" >
// ... TAB CONTENT
You should get the basic concept, currently it's not very elegant (to put it mildly).
But it works.
In case you wonder how my tabs got id's, well, I injected them in my controller :
Tab1 = {
id:1,
'ShortDescription': ShortDescription,
'FullDescription': FullDescription,
'TabContent': TabContent1,
title: "ProductTabTitleDefault1",
// active:true
};
Tab2 = {
id:2,
'ShortDescription': ShortDescription,
'FullDescription': FullDescription,
'TabContent': TabContent1,
title: "ProductTabTitleDefault2",
// active:true
};
$rootScope.tabs = {
'Tab1': Tab1,
'Tab2': Tab2,
};
Of course this is mockup data, but assuming your tabs and their content are dynamic, you can use a counter, and maybe use another key instead of "id" (but you'll have to change the rest accordingly).
