I think I have a solution for you, if i understand your question correctly. Here's the live example on jsFiddle.
I added two classes, one that's applied to the overall tab element and one that's applied to each tab panel.
.container{
width: 600px;
}
.panel{
height: 150px;
overflow: auto;
}
(The container
class could also be renamed to ui-tabs
so that you add to the jQuery UI ui-tabs
class, and the panel
class could be renamed to ui-tabs-panel
so that you add to the jQuery UI ui-tabs-panel
class.)
Here's the mark-up that I used...
<div class='main'>
<div id="tabs" class='container'>
<ul>
<li><a href="#tabs-1">Tab 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#tabs-2">Tab 2</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="tabs-1" class='panel'>
<p>tab1 text...</p>
</div>
<div id="tabs-2" class='panel'>
<p>tab2 text...</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
When I hook this up with some jQuery UI tab magic:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#tabs").tabs();
});
I end up with a single scroll bar inside the tab.
I hope this helps!