diff --git a/docs/_includes/js/tabs.html b/docs/_includes/js/tabs.html
index b107ca6a22..8c4c3c08ff 100644
--- a/docs/_includes/js/tabs.html
+++ b/docs/_includes/js/tabs.html
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <h2 id="tabs-examples">Example tabs</h2>
   <p>Add quick, dynamic tab functionality to transition through panes of local content, even via dropdown menus.</p>
   <div class="bs-example bs-example-tabs" role="tabpanel" data-example-id="togglable-tabs">
-    <ul id="myTab" class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
+    <ul id="myTabs" class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
       <li role="presentation" class="active"><a href="#home" id="home-tab" role="tab" data-toggle="tab" aria-controls="home" aria-expanded="true">Home</a></li>
       <li role="presentation"><a href="#profile" role="tab" id="profile-tab" data-toggle="tab" aria-controls="profile">Profile</a></li>
       <li role="presentation" class="dropdown">
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   <p>Enable tabbable tabs via JavaScript (each tab needs to be activated individually):</p>
 
 {% highlight js %}
-$('#myTab a').click(function (e) {
+$('#myTabs a').click(function (e) {
   e.preventDefault()
   $(this).tab('show')
 })
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ $('#myTab a').click(function (e) {
   <p>You can activate individual tabs in several ways:</p>
 
 {% highlight js %}
-$('#myTab a[href="#profile"]').tab('show') // Select tab by name
-$('#myTab a:first').tab('show') // Select first tab
-$('#myTab a:last').tab('show') // Select last tab
-$('#myTab li:eq(2) a').tab('show') // Select third tab (0-indexed)
+$('#myTabs a[href="#profile"]').tab('show') // Select tab by name
+$('#myTabs a:first').tab('show') // Select first tab
+$('#myTabs a:last').tab('show') // Select last tab
+$('#myTabs li:eq(2) a').tab('show') // Select third tab (0-indexed)
 {% endhighlight %}
 
   <h3>Markup</h3>
@@ -94,29 +94,12 @@ $('#myTab li:eq(2) a').tab('show') // Select third tab (0-indexed)
   <h3 id="tabs-methods">Methods</h3>
   <h4><code>$().tab</code></h4>
   <p>
-    Activates a tab element and content container. Tab should have either a <code>data-target</code> or an <code>href</code> targeting a container node in the DOM.
+    Activates a tab element and content container. Tab should have either a <code>data-target</code> or an <code>href</code> targeting a container node in the DOM. In the above examples, the tabs are the <code>&lt;a&gt;</code>s with <code>data-toggle="tab"</code> attributes.
   </p>
-{% highlight html %}
-<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist" id="myTab">
-  <li role="presentation" class="active"><a href="#home" aria-controls="home" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Home</a></li>
-  <li role="presentation"><a href="#profile" aria-controls="profile" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Profile</a></li>
-  <li role="presentation"><a href="#messages" aria-controls="messages" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Messages</a></li>
-  <li role="presentation"><a href="#settings" aria-controls="settings" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Settings</a></li>
-</ul>
 
-<div class="tab-content">
-  <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane active" id="home">...</div>
-  <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="profile">...</div>
-  <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="messages">...</div>
-  <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="settings">...</div>
-</div>
-
-<script>
-  $(function () {
-    $('#myTab a:last').tab('show')
-  })
-</script>
-{% endhighlight %}
+  <h4><code>.tab('show')</code></h4>
+  <p>Selects the given tab and shows its associated content. Any other tab that was previously selected becomes unselected and its associated content is hidden.</p>
+  {% highlight js %}$('#someTab').tab('show'){% endhighlight %}
 
   <h3 id="tabs-events">Events</h3>
   <p>When showing a new tab, the events fire in the following order:</p>