# Ionic Navigation between tabs and not **URL:** \ **Category:** ionic-v1\ **Created:** [June 8, 2015, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969 "2015-06-08T09:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uncuscino](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/uncuscino/32/12959_2.png) [@uncuscino](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/uncuscino)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969/1 "2015-06-08T09:03:17Z")
Hello, I’ve got a problem with the navigation in my app. I’ve got an app where in homepage you have a list of people (with a unique identifier - uid) and if you click on a person you are forwarded in the chat-detail with that uid (so in the page where you can chat with the person), skipping the “tab-chat” tab (it’s a tab where you have a list of chats you opened like the “homepage” of whatsapp, with the list of the chats and if you click on a chat you go into the chat with that person). The navigation problem there isn’t if I go in the chat-detail from the tab-chat, as it should do… But the problem is that I want when you go in the chat-detail from the homepage, you have to go back -not in homepage- in the tab-chats… Is that possible? Because if I click in the button from the homepage it goes in the chat-detail, but nothing appear to come back… neither to go back in the homepage. How to do what I want? I really don’t know what to do. Here’s the app.js code for the views… ``` .state('tab.home', { url: '/home', views: { 'tab-home': { templateUrl: 'templates/tab-home.html', controller: 'HomeCtrl' } } }) .state('tab.chats', { cache: false, url: '/chats', views: { 'tab-chats': { templateUrl: 'templates/tab-chats.html', controller: 'ChatsCtrl' } } }) .state('tab.chat-detail', { cache: false, url: '/chats/:chatId', views: { 'tab-chats': { templateUrl: 'templates/chat-detail.html', controller: 'ChatDetailCtrl' } } }) ``` Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![bodinaren](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/bodinaren/32/12602_2.png) [@bodinaren](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/bodinaren)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969/2 "2015-06-08T10:20:01Z")
The easiest way if you wanna keep your navigation history is to hide the tabs with the class `.tabs-item-hide` on your ``. So just use ng-class to set it when appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![uncuscino](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/uncuscino/32/12959_2.png) [@uncuscino](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/uncuscino)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969/3 "2015-06-08T10:55:01Z")
Thanks you for your reply! So I just need to put a ng-class in the navbar to show the back button if the previous state is tab-home? (for the tabs they are already hidden in the chat-detail, but thank you!) ---
**Author:** ![bodinaren](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/bodinaren/32/12602_2.png) [@bodinaren](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/bodinaren)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969/4 "2015-06-08T11:20:21Z")
I misunderstood your problem, sorry. I’m not sure how to solve that. ---
**Author:** ![nuba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nuba/32/82111_2.png) [@nuba](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nuba)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969/5 "2015-06-08T13:05:25Z")
If you want to toggle classes based on the current state, check this method in ui-router’s $state: > includes(stateOrName, params, options) > A method to determine if the current active state is equal to or is the child of the state stateName. If any params are passed then they will be tested for a match as well. Not all the parameters need to be passed, just the ones you’d like to test for equality. Full documentation on [http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-router/site/#/api/ui.router.state.$state](http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-router/site/#/api/ui.router.state.$state) ---
**Author:** ![bodinaren](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/bodinaren/32/12602_2.png) [@bodinaren](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/bodinaren)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969/6 "2015-06-08T13:08:28Z")
I believe what he wants to achieve is that when you go from tab.home directly to tab.chat-detail, then when you click back he wants to arrive at tab.chats instead of back at tab.home. Otherwise I misunderstood twice 😊 ---
**Author:** ![nuba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nuba/32/82111_2.png) [@nuba](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nuba)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-navigation-between-tabs-and-not/25969/7 "2015-06-08T13:42:03Z")
I think you’re right @bodinaren 😄 makes sense. In that case @uncuscino be aware that Ionic’ll keep state for each view. If your’re _deep linking_ to the chat details, if it’s the first time you’re using that view then there won’t be a “previous state” to go back to. Implementation details aside, I’d suggest sticking to a simple “up in the hierarchy” navigation (from chat details to the chat list) and not worrying with that view’s history. With deep links the “back” navigation won’t always be there 😛 and that’s confusing. Well just my $0.02 😉