Redirect to specific tab from another page in asp.net

Question

Good day all, I'm using Bootstrap 3 in asp.net mvc 4 & I'm trying to make tabs with bootstrap. I want other pages to redirect to a specific tab when clicked. I'm new to asp.net so I can't figure it out how can I do that. Here is my code,

Page that has the tabs(Service_BO.cshtml)

<div class="container well" style="min-width: 100%; padding-right: 5px;">
    <h3>BO Account Opening</h3><hr style="border-top: 2px solid #096596;" />
    <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
        <li><a href="#bo" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">BO Account Opening</a></li>
        <li><a href="#ipo" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">IPO Application</a></li>
        <li><a href="#smi" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Share Market Investment</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="tab-content">
        <div class="tab-pane active" id="bo">
            <p>BO</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="ipo">
            <p>IPO</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="smi">
            <p>SMI</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

External Page(Services.cshtml>

<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3">
    <img class="img-rounded img-responsive" src="~/Images/modhumita01.jpg" />
    <a href="@Url.Action("Service_BO", "Home")><h3>BO Account Opening</h3></a>
    <span><b>Open an individual and/or joint account</b></span>
</div>

Is there any way I can redirect to a specific tab by clicking a link from other page? It'll be a life saving if anyone can help me. Tnx.

Answer 1

You can resolve the active tab in your controller and pass the value to view (in your ViewModel, or ViewBag). Then you can use jquery to set the active class:

Controller

//empty value or a default
var activeTab = "bo";

//selecting active tab logic here
//...
ViewBag.Active = activeTab;

Service_BO.cshtml

@{
    //value is 'bo', 'ipo' or 'smi'
    string active = ViewBag.Active.ToString(); 
}

<script>
$(function () {
    var selector = '@active';
    $("#" + selector).addClass("active");
});
</script>

Answer 2

Can do something like this based on link shown above in comments

/* page load */
$(function(){
  var hash = window.location.hash;
  hash && $('ul.nav a[href="' + hash + '"]').tab('show');  


  /* add hash to url when tabs selected (for bookmarking) */
  $('.nav-tabs a').on('shown', function (e) {
      window.location.hash = this.hash;
  });
});