Currently, the active tab can be set by clicking it in the settings panel when the tabs element is selected. However, when designing, I will often select other tabs to design within them and then publish the site live. This results in the non-primary tab being set as the active tab which is a mistake.
It would be nice to have a way to select the default "active" tab so that this would be open automatically regardless of which tab was last active before the designer published the site.
Diarmuid Sexton
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This! The sheer number of times I've left the wrong tab selected simply after making some tweaks is absurd. This really needs to just be a default setting, why the designer last state is instead what causes it is just frustrating.
I am new to webflow and I could not work out why my default tabs kept changing. Until I realised that just selecting a tab to view or update it in the editor makes it the new default tab. This is insane.
Come on Webflow this can't be a difficult fix. The current implementation is very confusing.
Is this getting any attention? I've unintentionally had my "active" tab set to the one I was last working in more times than I can count on a featured part of our website.
There is no way to set initial active Tab when the website is open. Very frustrating
in the meantime, user Diarmuid Sexton made scripts to ease the pain, check them here:
https://forum.webflow.com/t/solution-setting-default-active-tab/66476
I just mailed them about this too! It's very frustrating when you edit a tab, close the editor, and then find you've completely screwed up your live site