# Tabs not showing on child pages
**URL:** https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902
**Category:** Get Answers
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902 "2022-01-17T11:13:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Jason1](https://forums.knack.com/u/Jason1)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902/1 "2022-01-17T11:13:39Z")
Hi all,
Can anyone help fix this problem? I’ve created a menu and ticked “Simulate tabs by showing the menu on any linked child pages”, but the menu isn’t appearing on the child pages.
This shows the menu with tabs:
This shows the child page without the menu:
Thanks,
Jason
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### Author:  [@CarlHolmes](https://forums.knack.com/u/CarlHolmes)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902/2 "2022-01-17T22:24:42Z")
Never had this issue ☹
Your child page doesn’t have any views?
Happy to connect to dig into this as may be something obvious that isn’t showing?
DM me if you would like to.
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### Author:  [@shipping](https://forums.knack.com/u/shipping)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902/3 "2025-04-14T14:45:02Z")
I know its been a while since this question was first asked, but today I have a similar problem. I have a menu that links to 9 child pages, and I have the “Simulate tabs by showing the menu on any linked child pages” and the “Navigate to the first link automatically” buttons checked. Everything works perfectly.
However, I only want our “Accountant” user roles to see all 9 pages, so for our “Client” user roles I created a second menu that links to 4 of the same pages as the first menu. I then set the page rules so that if the logged in account has a user role of “Accountant”, they only see the first menu, and vice-versa for the second menu.
The problem now is, when the logged in account has a user role of “Client”, this second menu doesn’t appear on the linked pages, exactly as described by @Jason1 . I assume it is because the linked pages are not actually child pages, but linked pages. I know I could solve the problem by having separate child pages for each menu, but then I’d have duplicated child pages, which I’m trying to avoid.
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### Author:  [@LeighBerre96926](https://forums.knack.com/u/LeighBerre96926)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902/4 "2025-04-14T20:14:47Z")
They literally must be child pages in the Knack page structure, not linked pages, for this to work.
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### Author:  [@shipping](https://forums.knack.com/u/shipping)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902/5 "2025-04-16T17:16:52Z")
Yes, @LeighBerre96926 that does seem to be the case. However, and somewhat unexpectedly, when I copy the second menu to the first linked page (so that it appears same as if it were a child page), that menu will also appear on all the sibling pages. Unless I’m missing something, this appears to be a functional work-around.
Edit-Actually, what happened when I copied the second menu, is that it made copies of each linked page and make those copies child pages, so I’m back to where I started.
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### Author:  [@Leigh](https://forums.knack.com/u/Leigh)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/tabs-not-showing-on-child-pages/11902/6 "2025-04-16T22:49:51Z")
I think you would need to **recreate** the menu on each of the sibling pages, pointing back to the original sub-pages, rather than copying the menu to the sibling pages. The Copy process copies everything including all the sub-pages, as you have discovered, effectively creating a maintenance nightmare. But if you just create a new menu on each of those sibling pages that has buttons linking back to the original sub-pages, that should work without recreating any sub-pages. A pain to build all those duplicated menus, but once done its done, and you don’t end up with all those duplicate sub-pages to maintain forever.