Browsers and Mail Close Tabs in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11

This tutorial will show you different ways to close one or more tabs in Microsoft Edge on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 device.

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Tabs in Microsoft Edge allow you to open multiple web pages within a single browser window. Each open tab is a separate webpage that you can organize and switch between in the browser window.

You can close one or more tabs at once within the Edge browser window without having to close the window.








1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Open (switch to) any tab or pinned tab you want to close.

3 Press the Ctrl + W keys.

This option requires Use double-click to close browser tabs turned on in Edge.

1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Double click/tap on any tab or pinned tab you want to close. (see screenshot below)







1 Open Microsoft Edge.

3 Click/tap on the Close tab (X) button on any tab you want to close. (see screenshot below)

This option requires Show tab search button turned on in Edge.

1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Click/tap on the Search tabs button. (see screenshot below)

3 Under Open Tabs in the Search tabs menu, hover on on any listed tab or pinned tab you want to close.

4 Click/tap on the Close (X) button on the highlighted tab or pinned tab to close it.







1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Right click on any tab or pinned tab you want to close. (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on Close tab in the menu.

This option will not close any pinned tabs.

1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Right click on any tab or pinned tab you want to keep open while closing all other tabs. (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on Close other tabs in the menu.

Close other tabs will be grayed out if there are no other open tabs. Pinned tabs are not included.

This option will not close any pinned tabs.

1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Right click on any tab or pinned tab you want to close all tabs to the right of. (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on Close tabs to the right in the menu.

Close tabs to the right will be grayed out if there are no open tabs to the right of the current tab. Pinned tabs are not included.

That's it,
Shawn Brink