Elsewhere in my Joomla site, I need to know how many times a tab is clicked. I want this to be invisible in the article with the tabs and slides. Does anyone know how to accomplish this task?
Thanks for the help.

By tabs, which tabs do you mean?
Also do you mean the items 's hits counter?

I'm using the plug-in entitled "Tabs & Sliders for articles". I simply need to know when a particular tab has been clicked.

I'm not sure what more I can describe. Following is the syntax for the tabs given in their documentation:

This is some text above the tabs
{tab=first tab title here}
some text here
{tab=second tab title here}
some more text here
{tab=third tab title here}
some more text here and so on..
{/tabs}
And some more text after the tabs!
.
Thanks for any further help!
Don

Since this extension can be overriden you could include Google Analytics's API and add an event when a user clicks on a certain tab.

developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide

Thank you for your answer; it is appreciated. Looks like I will have some learning ahead of me! :-)
Donm

You 're welcome Don :)