Don't press tab and space

[Autolycus]

I don’t believe you let’s try it.

[bluecanary]

How so

[Larry_Borgia]

It was the best of times it was

Huh.

[Munch]

@Sandwich

Is this a bug or a feature?

Go to any website. Click anywhere on the page that’s not a button or link. Now press tab. Press it again. And again. See what’s happening? Now press space.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

Of course this only works on some systems. I imagine it’s A Windows feature? On Mac OS with Safari the tab+space doesn’t act that way. If I’m in the Quick Reply box, typing away, and press Tab, the Forum Jump drop-down is selected. If I then press Space, it shows me the list of Forums in the Forum Jump drop-down.

[Joey_P]

@Arnold_Winkelried

Of course this only works on some systems. I imagine it’s A Windows feature? On Mac OS with Safari the tab+space doesn’t act that way. If I’m in the Quick Reply box, typing away, and press Tab, the Forum Jump drop-down is selected. If I then press Space, it shows me the list of Forums in the Forum Jump drop-down.

That is one of the things you would eventually tab to, but it’s odd that it goes from the quick reply box directly to the forum jump box. On my browser it has a few other things to go through first to first.

Actually, just testing it, tab goes from the quick reply box, to post, then advanced, then a few of the links, then back up to the top, then meanders to the page and eventually back to the forum jump drop down. It’s actually much faster to get there by Shift+Tabbing backwards, then it’s only a few steps.

[fubbleskag]

@Arnold_Winkelried

Of course this only works on some systems. I imagine it’s A Windows feature? On Mac OS with Safari the tab+space doesn’t act that way. If I’m in the Quick Reply box, typing away, and press Tab, the Forum Jump drop-down is selected. If I then press Space, it shows me the list of Forums in the Forum Jump drop-down.

That’s the same behaviour as what is being described in this thread - the only difference is that your browser is interpreting the order/availability of form fields differently for some reason.

[D18]

Gotcha y

[Rhythmdvl]

I assume tab order something you can set/control in HTML–is it?

[Chronos]

Interestingly, on OSX and Firefox, tab just toggles between the text box and the “post quick reply” button, without ever going to any other link or control. If any other link or control is active, tab goes to the text box, and into the same box-button loop. And if the URL box is active, then tab goes to the quick-Google box, and then to the entire content of the window, and then to the quick-reply text box.

[yojimbo]

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[Rhythmdvl]

@Rhythmdvl

I assume tab order something you can set/control in HTML–is it?

Here, LMGTFY:

From W3:

17.11.1 Tabbing navigation

Attribute definitions

tabindex = number [CN]
This attribute specifies the position of the current element in the tabbing order for the current document. This value must be a number between 0 and 32767. User agents should ignore leading zeros.

The tabbing order defines the order in which elements will receive focus when navigated by the user via the keyboard. The tabbing order may include elements nested within other elements.

Elements that may receive focus should be navigated by user agents according to the following rules:

1. Those elements that support the tabindex attribute and assign a positive value to it are navigated first. Navigation proceeds from the element with the lowest tabindex value to the element with the highest value. Values need not be sequential nor must they begin with any particular value. Elements that have identical tabindex values should be navigated in the order they appear in the character stream.
2. Those elements that do not support the tabindex attribute or support it and assign it a value of “0” are navigated next. These elements are navigated in the order they appear in the character stream.
3. Elements that are disabled do not participate in the tabbing order.

The following elements support the tabindex attribute: A, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, OBJECT, SELECT, and TEXTAREA.

In this example, the tabbing order will be the BUTTON, the INPUT elements in order (note that “field1” and the button share the same tabindex, but “field1” appears later in the character stream), and finally the link created by the A element.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>A document with FORM</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
...some text...
<P>Go to the 
<A tabindex="10" href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C Web site.</A>
...some more...
<BUTTON type="button" name="get-database"
           tabindex="1" onclick="get-database">
Get the current database.
</BUTTON>
...some more...
<FORM action="..." method="post">
<P>
<INPUT tabindex="1" type="text" name="field1">
<INPUT tabindex="2" type="text" name="field2">
<INPUT tabindex="3" type="submit" name="submit">
</P>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

[Mahaloth]

Neat

[janis_and_c0]

well I’ll be dar

[MichaelEmouse]

testing

[UltraVires]

testing

[Slash1972]

Try Alt-F4, it will REALLY blow your mind!

[Sherrerd]

@Slash1972

Try Alt-F4, it will REALLY blow your mind!

Only if it actually sends me back in time 4 minutes.

If all it does is delete my desktop files, I’m not interested.

ETA: it has its own Urban Dictionary page! Urban Dictionary: Alt+F4

[Kent_Clark]

Is this a message board thing or is it my brow

[Kent_Clark]

ser?