Navigate to tab on tabcontainer

Hi,

I have the following structure:

Home Page

    MainView (User Control)

      TabContainer

From a link placed on one of the tabs how do I navigate to another tab? I'd like to place the MainView User control into Umbraco where as far as I understand it I have no access to the pageLoad event for the parent page and so if possible would appreciate answers where code is not added to the Home Page.

Thanks,

M