Show Active Link with Spry Sliding Panels

Hi,
Whilst googling to a solution to my problem I came accross this sample:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/slidingpanels/SlidingPanels_withTabs.html
Is there anyway that simple HTML links that can be used instead of tabs? I have a navigation menu that contains links which link to specific panels using the ShowPanel() function, but once a panel is selected via one of these links, I want that link to become 'active' and display in a different colour.
So far I have this:
<a href="#" class="active" onclick="sp1.showPanel('p1'); return false;">Home</a><br />
<a href="#" onclick="sp1.showPanel('p2'); return false;">Latest News</a><br />
<a href="#" onclick="sp1.showPanel('p3'); return false;">FAQ's </a></div>
The 'active' class represents the link that is currently active, but I don't know how to dynamically switch the active link when another panel is selected.
Does anybody know how this could be achieved?
Thanks

Did you check out the source code for that those panels?
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/slidingpanels/sp_withTabs.js
Als you see, they use a separate function to set active classes to the tabs. You can use the same functionality for your active link class.

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