Opencart how to add product options into a tab

Question

Opencart 1.5.3. Im trying to get the product options on the page to be displayed inside a tab. If I use the following code I get no errors and it looks fine, but clicking add to cart does nothing. If the code is outside the tab it works fine. Im not sure what Im doing wrong.

<div id="tabs_container">
<ul id="tabs">
<li class="active"><a href="#tab1">tab1</a></li>
<li><a href="#tab2">tab2</a></li>
<li><a href="#tab3">tab3</a></li>
<li><a href="#tab4">tab4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="tabs_content_container">
<div id="tab1" class="tab_content" style="display:block"></div><!--tab1-->
<div id="tab2" class="tab_content"></div><!--tab2-->
<div id="tab3" class="tab_content"></div><!--tab3-->
<div id="tab4" class="tab_content">

<?php if ($options) { ?>
      <div class="options">
        <h2><?php echo $text_option; ?></h2>
        <br />
        <?php foreach ($options as $option) { ?>
        <?php if ($option['type'] == 'select') { ?>
        <div id="option-<?php echo $option['product_option_id']; ?>" class="option">
          <?php if ($option['required']) { ?>
          <span class="required">*</span>
          <?php } ?>
          <b><?php echo $option['name']; ?>:</b><br />
          <select name="option[<?php echo $option['product_option_id']; ?>]">
            <option value=""><?php echo $text_select; ?></option>
            <?php foreach ($option['option_value'] as $option_value) { ?>
            <option value="<?php echo $option_value['product_option_value_id']; ?>"><?php echo $option_value['name']; ?>
            <?php if ($option_value['price']) { ?>
            (<?php echo $option_value['price_prefix']; ?><?php echo $option_value['price']; ?>)
            <?php } ?>
            </option>
            <?php } ?>
          </select>
        </div>
        <br />
        <?php } ?>
        <?php } ?>
      </div>

</div><!--tab4-->
</div><!--tabs_content_container-->

Here is the javascript for the form submit that Opencart uses.

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
    $('#button-cart').bind('click', function() {
        $.ajax({
            url: 'index.php?route=checkout/cart/add',
            type: 'post',
            data: $('.product-info input[type=\'text\'], .product-info input[type=\'hidden\'], .product-info input[type=\'radio\']:checked, .product-info input[type=\'checkbox\']:checked, .product-info select, .product-info textarea'),
            dataType: 'json',
            success: function(json) {
                $('.success, .warning, .attention, information, .error').remove();

                if (json['error']) {
                    if (json['error']['option']) {
                        for (i in json['error']['option']) {
                            $('#option-' + i).after('<span class="error">' + json['error']['option'][i] + '</span>');
                        }
                    }
                } 

                if (json['success']) {
                    $('#notification').html('<div class="success" style="display: none;">' + json['success'] + '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/close.png" alt="" class="close" /></div>');
                    $('.success').fadeIn('slow');
                    $('#cart-total').html(json['total']);
                    $('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, 'slow'); 
                }   
            }
        });
    });
    //--></script>

Answer 1

The problem will be that the closing </form> tag won't be around the tab content. You need to move the </form> after your content and that should do it