# Order of tabs/settings

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/order-of-tabs-settings/47708>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [May 22, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/order-of-tabs-settings/47708 "2025-05-22T20:52:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![lukasz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lukasz](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/lukasz)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/order-of-tabs-settings/47708/1 "2025-05-22T20:52:42Z")

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Hi.

I could not find any information so I created new topic.

It would be great to have the possibility of moving the order of tabs in the setting panel to the right and overall in [Elements](https://elementsapp.io/) panels. Let me give you an example:

If I create a Container and want to give it a HTML tag of say Section, I have to scroll all the way down to the Advanced section. It would be great to have the possibility of changing the order of setting tabs in different panels in [Elements](https://elementsapp.io/).

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**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/order-of-tabs-settings/47708/2 "2025-05-22T21:51:44Z")

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No, you can’t reorder the tabs but that’s an interesting idea.

What you might find useful is to switch it to `Single Mode`, it’s the way I work:

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**Author:** ![lukasz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lukasz](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/lukasz)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/order-of-tabs-settings/47708/3 "2025-05-22T22:06:44Z")

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Thank you Dan for a super fast reply. The single mode will work 🙂

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**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/order-of-tabs-settings/47708/4 "2025-05-22T22:07:29Z")

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Awesome, I love the single mode, never use anything now!

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**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/order-of-tabs-settings/47708/5 "2025-05-23T02:00:02Z")

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@dan Since we are talking about the Settings Inspector I have a question, which might also be a feature request.

Currently, it appears that [Elements](https://elementsapp.io/) “remembers” what setting you last edited for each component, which has its place. But I have found there are situations where I’m looking at settings for a bunch of different components. I want to be able to, for example, expand the background color setting, then I want it to stay open and active as I click on other components. Typically, I would be doing this because I want to compare the settings for several different components.

The way it works now each time I click on a different component it will switch away to the settings that were last edited for that component. This makes for a lot of additional clicking back and forth.

Could we possibly have a setting that can be toggled to not save the last edited setting, or the other way around one that tells [Elements](https://elementsapp.io/) to leave the selected setting active regardless of the selected component?

Now that I have a few live sites I have noticed this even more as I’m working through the sites to ensure they are consistent, so I find myself doing this a lot and it is painful.

Let me know if I should move this to its own thread.
