# Side-menus nav-bar and tabs working together?

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/side-menus-nav-bar-and-tabs-working-together/399>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [January 3, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/side-menus-nav-bar-and-tabs-working-together/399 "2014-01-03T20:50:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![timcash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@timcash](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/timcash)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/side-menus-nav-bar-and-tabs-working-together/399/1 "2014-01-03T20:50:21Z")

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I cannot seem to get tabs side-menus and nav-bar working together. I would like to have tabs inside each nav-page and each nav-page listed inside side-menu as an item.

-Tim

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**Author:** ![xAlien95](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/xalien95/32/7507_2.png) [@xAlien95](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/xAlien95)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/side-menus-nav-bar-and-tabs-working-together/399/2 "2014-01-03T20:53:17Z")

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Hi @timcash, could you post an example code to see if there’s something wrong?  
Thank you 🙂

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**Author:** ![cramrov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@cramrov](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/cramrov)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/side-menus-nav-bar-and-tabs-working-together/399/3 "2014-01-31T18:01:31Z")

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Hi, I also would like to see them working together. Please @timcash post an example.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ajbraus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/ajbraus/32/63991_2.png) [@ajbraus](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/ajbraus)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/side-menus-nav-bar-and-tabs-working-together/399/4 "2014-04-05T19:43:24Z")

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Hi I would also like to use side-bar and tabs together. Does this work?

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**Author:** ![mbyrne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mbyrne/32/91428_2.png) [@mbyrne](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mbyrne)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/side-menus-nav-bar-and-tabs-working-together/399/5 "2014-04-06T23:40:43Z")

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Hi @ajbraus. check out this link on a more recent relatated post:

> [@Using sidemenu and tabs together](http://forum.ionicframework.com/t/using-sidemenu-and-tabs-together/2311/19):
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> The most updated pen is at: @gnomeontherun wrote it and it solves tabs and side menu (s) (there is a left and right menu) It was updated by @gnomeontherun to show the case of having the side menu items (in this pen it is the right menu items) link to a page that is not under one of the tabs, like the those left menu items are. If you want the right side items to have a tab, you can add that manually( I cut and pasted my tabs code from tabs.html into that side menu item’s template) or you c…