Can a tab change be prevented?

[shermanis]

I have a tabPanel with 3 tabs. When the user clicks on a different tab, there are some times when I don't want the tabPanel to switch tabs. I.e. I want to run some javascript in the onclick or ontableave (etc) event that will determine whether or not the tabPanel should switch tabs, and if not, prevent the tabPanel from switching tabs. Is this possible?

Thanks

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Proper way is to use ontableave and ontabenter events on the tabs.

For your case

<rich:tab label="test 1" name="tab1" action="#{bean.action}" ontableave="if (!confirm('Sure to leave?')){return false;}">

After you click to any other tab - this confirmation will be displayed and the event will canceled if you press "cancel" button.

B.t.w. Thanks for point to one of the problems :)

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1084