Reading long extracts of text is not what tabs are designed for; they're more for isolating contextually separate sections of a document from each other.
Having said that, we'll follow the previous example (reading a book through accordions) with the same thing but in the tab format, so that we have a comparison.
Tabs are incredibly easy to set up to use Ajax. As we'll see, it's just a matter of adding the URL to retrieve to the menu link.
To see this example in action, copy the entire previous example to a new directory, and replace the book.php file with this:
<html>
<head>
<script src="../jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="../jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#chapters').tabs();
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
@import "../jquery-ui.css";
#chapters li{padding-bottom:0 !important}
</style...