You can take a look at the full code in this working Plunker.
In this example I use a shared service to handle the communication between the pages inside the tab (child pages) and the tab container (the component that holds the tabs). Even though you probably could do it with Events I like the shar...
Instead of getting a reference to the DOM you can simply change the index of the tab using the selectedIndex attribute on the ion-tabs
HTML:
<ion-tabs [selectedIndex]="tabIndex" class="tabs-icon-text" primary >
<ion-tab tabIcon="list-box" [root]=&qu...
