Close the clicked tab, not the currently selected tab JTabbedPane?

Your actionPerformed() method calls your closeTab() method. Your closeTab() method removes the currently selected tab from the tabbed pane.

By removing getSelectedComponent() you will always remove the selected tab, if you want to remove the journal tab you need to pass the journal tab component to the remove method.

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