"can you tell me how I can use explode for hide."
Did you even consider reading the jQuery UI tabs documentation, which actually includes an example of hiding with "explode":
$( ".selector" ).tabs({ hide: { effect: "explode", duration: 1000 } });
You can easily combine this with the same or a different effect to show
, as well:
$( ".selector" ).tabs({
hide: { effect: "explode", duration: 1000 },
show: { effect: "explode", duration: 1000 }
});
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/T4rst/
"Is there any place where I can get a list of all the effects that can be used with jquery-ui tabs."
Well as that same documentation page says:
"The value can either be the name of a built-in jQuery animation method, such as "slideUp", or the name of a jQuery UI effect, such as "fold".
So there is a list of jQuery UI effects here, plus the standard jQuery ones apply.