Thomas Mortagne wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Regan Gill <rgill@acceptsoftware.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have set up xwiki for my company's wiki. One complaint I am getting a lot from users is that the tab key doesn't insert a tab when editing, instead it works like a form and moves the focus. Is there a good reason for this or just something no one got around to implementing?
If you are using Firefox, I think it's the default behavior of this browser (when IE insert a tab character) in an input field.
Now, maybe we can catch the tab key event in some way... but I will let more WYSIWYG experienced guys answer for this ;)
It can be done. From JavaScript we can prevent the default behavior of the browser and add our own logic. But then we would have to ask more questions:
* do all the users expect the tab to indent? * which character should be used? space or real tab. If space, how many? * what if the JavaScript is disabled?
Regards, Marius
It could be an option setting for the wiki: 1. Default (focus change) 2. Insert Tab 3. Insert Space I think if Javascript is disabled then they just get the default behavior. (wouldn't other things not work in that case as well? ) My company is pretty picky about editors (we include FCKeditor in our product and there are a lot of enhancement requests for that) so I am getting quite a few requests for enhancements on the wiki including this one. The other big one is a request for double click to edit. So I don't know if I just have picky customers or not, but personally I would really like to have tabs since they make code easier to write in the pages. Thanks for your replies, Regan