[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21347: There is no way to tab out of the plugins and themes editors textareas

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Tue Jul 24 06:02:50 UTC 2012


#21347: There is no way to tab out of the plugins and themes editors textareas
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 Reporter:  azaozz         |       Owner:  azaozz
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Accessibility  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                 |
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Comment (by dd32):

 > Standard behaviour for a textarea when tab key is pressed is to move to
 the next item that can receive focus.

 Standard behaviour for a "Code Editor" (Which the text area is in this
 case) is to insert a tab character for indention purposes, Shift+Tab would
 be to un-indent, so to remove the tab before the current position.

 The Plugin/Theme editors being Code Editors rather than standard form
 elements makes me comfortable that the Esc key being added as an escape..
 but that's just a Developers opinion, those that would be using the
 textarea, for the tab key to do anything other than inserting a tab makes
 muscle memory useless

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21347#comment:7>
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