diff --git a/js/src/IndexSelector.ts b/js/src/IndexSelector.ts
index 4136a5e25..5336deccc 100644
--- a/js/src/IndexSelector.ts
+++ b/js/src/IndexSelector.ts
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export class IndexSelector extends BaseXSelector {
   }
 
   mousemove() {
-    if (!this.active) {
+    if (!this.active || this.dirty) {
       return;
     }
     this.dirty = true;
@@ -143,7 +143,10 @@ export class IndexSelector extends BaseXSelector {
     } else {
       const pixel = this.scale.scale(selected[0]);
       if (this.line !== undefined && this.line !== null) {
-        this.line.attr('x1', 0).attr('x2', 0).attr('visibility', 'visible');
+        this.line
+          .attr('x1', pixel)
+          .attr('x2', pixel)
+          .attr('visibility', 'visible');
       }
       //the selected may be called before the index selector is
       //active for the first time.
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diff --git a/ui-tests/tests/notebooks/index_selector_update.ipynb b/ui-tests/tests/notebooks/index_selector_update.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..007efd743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui-tests/tests/notebooks/index_selector_update.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "06ac2448-da47-4939-a22a-e4b556fba103",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "from bqplot import *\n",
+    "from bqplot.interacts import *\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Create Scatter\n",
+    "sc_x = LinearScale()\n",
+    "sc_y = LinearScale()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "scatt = Scatter(\n",
+    "    x=list(range(10)), \n",
+    "    y=[20, 3, 23, 5, 6, 12, 23, 14, 20, 3],\n",
+    "    scales={'x': sc_x, 'y': sc_y},\n",
+    "    selected_style={\"opacity\": \"1\"},\n",
+    "    unselected_style={\"opacity\": \"0.2\"}\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "sel = IndexSelector(\n",
+    "    marks=[scatt], \n",
+    "    scale=sc_x,\n",
+    "    selected=3\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "ax_x = Axis(scale=sc_x)\n",
+    "ax_y = Axis(scale=sc_y, orientation='vertical')\n",
+    "\n",
+    "fig = Figure(\n",
+    "    marks=[scatt], \n",
+    "    axes=[ax_x, ax_y],\n",
+    "    interaction=sel\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "fig"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "a0600d9f-2256-4610-a14e-471c255d4924",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "sel.selected = 5"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.10.0"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}