Twitter Bootstrap tabs not working: when I click on them nothing happens

Question

You need to add tabs plugin to your code

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9630595/assets/twitterbootstrap/js/bootstrap-tab.js"></script>

Well, it didn’t work. I made some tests and it started working when:

moved (updated to 1.7) jQuery script to <head> section
added data-toggle="tab" to links and id for <ul> tab element
changed $(".tabs").tabs(); to $("#tabs").tab();
and some other things that shouldn’t matter

Here’s a code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- Le styles -->
<link href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9630595/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container">

<!-------->
<div id="content">
    <ul id="tabs" class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs">
        <li class="active"><a href="#red" data-toggle="tab">Red</a></li>
        <li><a href="#orange" data-toggle="tab">Orange</a></li>
        <li><a href="#yellow" data-toggle="tab">Yellow</a></li>
        <li><a href="#green" data-toggle="tab">Green</a></li>
        <li><a href="#blue" data-toggle="tab">Blue</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div id="my-tab-content" class="tab-content">
        <div class="tab-pane active" id="red">
            <h1>Red</h1>
            <p>red red red red red red</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="orange">
            <h1>Orange</h1>
            <p>orange orange orange orange orange</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="yellow">
            <h1>Yellow</h1>
            <p>yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="green">
            <h1>Green</h1>
            <p>green green green green green</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="blue">
            <h1>Blue</h1>
            <p>blue blue blue blue blue</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>


<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
        $('#tabs').tab();
    });
</script>    
</div> <!-- container -->


<script type="text/javascript" src="../bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js"></script>

</body>
</html>

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