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url: https://cuonghuunguyen.github.io/features/split-view.md
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# Split view

Show two sessions next to each other, or one above the other, each with its own timeline, prompt box and scroll position. A session can also sit beside one of its [panes](panes): its plan, its project's terminal, a file or an artifact. It needs a window at least 1024px wide.

![Two sessions side by side](/screenshots/split-view.png)

## How to use

1. Open at least two session tabs.
2. Right-click a session tab (long press, or Shift+F10 on it) and pick **Split right** or **Split down**. That tab moves into the new split.
3. Click or tab into a split to make it the active one. A thin ring marks it.
4. Drag the bar between the splits to resize them, or focus it and press the arrow keys. Double click it to go back to 50/50.
5. To end the split, run **Join splits** in the [command palette](palette). The active session stays.

You can also drag a tab onto the session area and drop it at an edge to split there. **Split right**, **Split down** and the drag work on Plan, Files, Terminal, file and artifact tabs too. A split always holds at least one session. Git graph always takes the whole area, and Changes stays in its panel.

## Good to know

* The palette also has **Split right**, **Split down**, **Focus next split** and **Focus previous split**. Bind keys to them in [Keyboard shortcuts](../reference/shortcuts).
* The active split is the current session: the side panel, the terminal, palette commands and Esc (stop) follow it.
* Both sessions on screen count as seen, so neither shows a notification card.
* The tab of the other split has a split icon. Closing it ends the split.
* When the window is too narrow for two splits, one shows at a time with a **Close split** button. The split comes back when there is room.
* After a split, the typing focus is in the new split: type at once, also in a terminal.
* The split is kept per browser and restored on reload while both tabs are open.