Event listeners for jQuery's UI tabs?

Question

Are there event listeners available for jQuery UI's tabs widget?

I'm wanting to change the background colour on a web page depending on what tab index is currently active. So something like this (pseudo code):

$('.tabs').addEventListener(index, changeBackgroundImage);

function changeBackgroundImage(index) {
    switch (index) {
        case 1:
            $('body').css('background-image', '/images/backgrounds/1.jpg');
        break;
        case 2:
            $('body').css('background-image', '/images/backgrounds/2.jpg');
        break;
        case 3:
            $('body').css('background-image', '/images/backgrounds/3.jpg');
        break;
        default:
            $('body').css('background-image', '/images/backgrounds/default.jpg');
        break;
    }
};

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

it seems the old's version's of jquery ui don't support select event anymore.

This code will work with new versions:

$('.selector').tabs({
                    activate: function(event ,ui){
                        //console.log(event);
                        console.log(ui.newTab.index());
                    }
});