In your SharePoint setup, if top navigation aka global navigation tabs do not highlight after clicking on them - then most probably their navigation URL needs to be fixed.
For example, if the tab URL is http://server/sitename/default.aspx then remove /default.aspx from this URL such that your final URL should be http://server/sitename in the navigation settings page.
This will fix that annoying highlight tab problem in that particular tab.
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