# Tab strip navigation not updating tab on second window:

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-navigation-not-updating-tab-on-second-window/103231>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [March 4, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-navigation-not-updating-tab-on-second-window/103231 "2025-03-04T19:04:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leor\_Fishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Leor\_Fishman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Leor_Fishman)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-navigation-not-updating-tab-on-second-window/103231/1 "2025-03-04T19:04:03Z")

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I have two windows, and a tab strip on both to enable navigating between them. Right now, when i click on the tab strip in A to go to B, and then click on the tab strip in B to go back to A, A's tab strip still shows window B selected. How can I make A's tab strip update?

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**Author:** ![jrusso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jrusso](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jrusso)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-navigation-not-updating-tab-on-second-window/103231/2 "2025-03-04T19:08:02Z")

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Use only 1 tab strip in a main docked window, such as a header or sidebar. If I'm reading this correctly it sounds like you have 2 different tab strips for each window.

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**Author:** ![Leor\_Fishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Leor\_Fishman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Leor_Fishman)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-navigation-not-updating-tab-on-second-window/103231/3 "2025-03-04T19:10:12Z")

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Thanks!

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-navigation-not-updating-tab-on-second-window/103231/4 "2025-03-04T19:11:28Z")

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It is also important to know that the tab strip's built-in navigation also expects _ **ALL** _ main window navigation to use `.swapTo()`, not any form of `.openWindow()`, so there is never more than one main window open. Break this rule and the current window highlighting will break.

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**Author:** ![jrusso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jrusso](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jrusso)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-navigation-not-updating-tab-on-second-window/103231/5 "2025-03-04T19:15:08Z")

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Good point. This would also cause an issue with your menu buttons not appearing to work because they would try to open a window that may already be open in the background