# Side menu strange behavior, need help

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/side-menu-strange-behavior-need-help/16334>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/side-menu-strange-behavior-need-help/16334 "2025-02-07T10:19:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![romu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@romu](https://community.weweb.io/u/romu)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/side-menu-strange-behavior-need-help/16334/1 "2025-02-07T10:19:01Z")

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Hi there.  
I’m currently have a project with 2 pages, and a side menu.

I’ve created custom states at the side menu level, depending on the variable which says which item is actually active.

Each menu item has a workflow with 2 actions:

- Change the variable value to keep which page is active
- Navigate to the page according to the item clicked.

It works, but I’ve a strange behavior: each time I click on a menu item (and it’s the same on the logout button at the bottom, even if I just changed the text and icon), a new tab is open which leads me to the home project page.

Any guidance where the problem stands?

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**Author:** ![romu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@romu](https://community.weweb.io/u/romu)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/side-menu-strange-behavior-need-help/16334/2 "2025-02-07T13:22:19Z")

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To be sure, I’ve just created a new blank project with only the side menu, without any change. And this behavior is the same.

And the action to switch the page is in the inspector, **Link** section, for the users who may face the same behavior.