# Clearing a tab strip selection

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clearing-a-tab-strip-selection/21316>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clearing-a-tab-strip-selection/21316 "2018-12-10T19:26:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![brendan.curran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@brendan.curran](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brendan.curran)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clearing-a-tab-strip-selection/21316/1 "2018-12-10T19:26:02Z")

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Is there a way to clear a tabs selection on an event. The problem is that tabs disappear and reappear but whatever tab was selected remains selected. This is causing some issues and I cannot figure out how to clear their selection

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**Author:** ![ethomason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ethomason/32/43338_2.png) [@ethomason](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ethomason)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clearing-a-tab-strip-selection/21316/2 "2018-12-10T20:39:17Z")

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Yes, the property is “selectedTab” which you can set to a string containing the tab you want to be selected.

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**Author:** ![brendan.curran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@brendan.curran](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brendan.curran)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clearing-a-tab-strip-selection/21316/3 "2018-12-11T14:50:14Z")

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Im looking to have no tab selected at all. When I set it to an empty string the selected tab does not change. I’ve found other ways to work around it by just disabling certain tabs when others are selected.

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**Author:** ![trisha.delaluna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@trisha.delaluna](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/trisha.delaluna)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clearing-a-tab-strip-selection/21316/4 "2020-04-29T12:23:09Z")

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Hi, Sorry if this is an old trend…but I’m new to ignition 8 and am just wondering how you disabled your tabs…as I currently have 2 tab strips (north and south docked) and when im using the tabs of the south, the north tab still had a highlighted tab…to avoid confusion i would like to have only the current main window tab highlighted.

Thank you