jquery tabs are disturbed

Question

Whenevr i uncomment the second line then the tabs are not shown. inform is a simple div placeholder in body

$("#tabs").tabs();
//$(#inform).hide();//initialize itto hide-interferes with tab

Answer 1

Perhaps you mean $("#inform").hide().

Answer 2

It might be because the " " are missing around #inform caussing a javascript error, this parse error will then prevent the first line from being run.

$("#inform").hide();

Will parse correctly.