Hi,

as a programmer I like using the tab key for spacing

code. However with the forum editor, tab has an irritating effect!


is there a way to have normal tab behaviour?

or can someone forward this request to the developers

of the forum php

just use some text editor, then copy, paste to the board.

I'm pretty sure it's a browser problem, not a BB problem.

ass0 is correct here. Usually where you want tabs is in your assembly (or any code) and because this textbox here is variable-width and tabs are visually apparent only when writing in fixed-width fonts. What I'm trying to say is that your tab-browser-misbehaviour is not the only problem you're facing.

(Btw, tab can be overridden to work the way you like, but I hate it about as much as that Adobe's Flash stealing all my focuses* )

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

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Code:

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To fix this problem you would have to write a modification that when you press TAB it did not go to the next feild.

@Madis:

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Madis731 wrote:

ass0 is correct here. Usually where you want tabs is in your assembly (or any code) and because this textbox here is variable-width and tabs are visually apparent only when writing in fixed-width fonts. What I'm trying to say is that your tab-browser-misbehaviour is not the only problem you're facing. (Btw, tab can be overridden to work the way you like, but I hate it about as much as that Adobe's Flash stealing all my focuses* )

I use Firefox on XP, any hints how to make tab function the way
I want?

it would be nice if control characters were kept to the alt- and

F1 to F12 and other unusual keys.


the whole point of tab is for text formatting, I think its delinquent

to reassign tab to other uses. There are 12 function keys at the top

of a keyboard,


combined with alt that is 24 keys

1) Google "browser tab textbox"
2) 1st link: http://superuser.com/questions/67934/typing-the-tab-character-in-browser-text-boxes
3) 1st answer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabinta/

Madis731, tabinta cannot tab selection, it only inserts \t.

Btw, here's my bookmarklet. This terrible code was written years ago, and it works only on Gecko browsers. However it can be fixed and easily converted into the userscript:

Code:

javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0].onkeypress=function(e){if(e.keyCode!=9||e.ctrlKey||e.altKey)return true;var tabWidth=8,t=e.target,fwd=!e.shiftKey,txt=t.value,tmp,pad=(new Array(tabWidth+1)).join('\x20'),i,r,s1=t.selectionStart,s1s=txt.lastIndexOf('\n',s1-1)+1,s2=t.selectionEnd,s2e=txt.indexOf('\n',s2);s2e=(s2e==-1)?txt.length:s2e;if(s1==s2){if(fwd)pad=pad.substr((s1-s1s)%tabWidth),txt=txt.substr(0,s1)+pad+txt.substr(s2),s1=s2+=pad.length;else s1=((s1-s1s+tabWidth-1)&~(tabWidth-1))-tabWidth,s2=s1=s1s+((s1>=0)?s1:0);}else{tmp=txt.substring(s1s,s2e).split(/\n/);for(i=0;i<tmp.length;++i)if(fwd){tmp[i]=pad+tmp[i];}else{if((r=tmp[i].match(/^\x20+/))!=null&&r[0].length>=tabWidth)tmp[i]=tmp[i].substr(tabWidth);}r=tmp.join('\n');s1=s1s,s2=s1+r.length;txt=txt.substr(0,s1s)+r+txt.substr(s2e);}t.value=txt;t.selectionStart=s1;t.selectionEnd=s2;return false;})