I found that opening a created tab is a bit cumbersome, however I finally accomplished it (a bit dirty though). "add" currently has the url and title of the tab, I think there should be another param which could be a boolean for whether to select the tab upon creation. That process actually seems to be what most people would want anyway when adding a new tab.

Note: This is how I did it now (like I said, probably not the best way)

$("a.details").click(function() {

var title = $(this).attr("title");

var url = $(this).attr("href");

var last_tab = $("#example > ul li").length;

$("#example > ul").tabs("add", url, title).tabs("select", last_tab);

return false;

});