Tabs: Want none selected, but not always.

Page A has tabs. Page B has links to each tab on page A, so that when you click a link you go to Page A and see that corresponding tab open. Works great. But then I wanted people to be able to go to Page A directly, and in that case to have no tabs open. I put in [selected: -1] and now no tabs are selected. But now, of course, when you click a link from Page B you get to Page A with no tabs open.

So, what's my best option to combine these two?