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Edit mode helpers ​

While you edit the dashboard (and in the card editor's live preview), Tabdeck shows the tabs that are normally hidden by their visibility conditions. They appear faded, with a dashed outline and an eye-off marker, so you can still open them and check their content. Once you leave edit mode they disappear again.

Config key: edit_mode_reveal (boolean, default true)

A hidden "Guests" tab revealed in edit mode

Behaviour ​

  • Hidden tabs are revealed only while Home Assistant reports edit mode (editMode / preview); a normal dashboard view is unchanged.
  • auto_rotate and idle_return pause while editing, so the deck doesn't spin away from the tab you're working on. Their timers restart when you finish editing.
  • Picks made while editing are not remembered (remember: browser | url | entity), because they may point at a tab that's hidden in normal use.
  • Entering or leaving edit mode keeps you on the same tab where it still exists.
  • Turn it off with edit_mode_reveal: false (also a toggle in the visual editor) to see exactly what your users see while editing.
yaml
type: custom:tabdeck-card
edit_mode_reveal: false   # keep hidden tabs hidden, even while editing
tabs: [ ... ]