Current (Shift+)Tab (De-)indents a list item, but in any other context it falls back to native behaviour and ends up blurring the whole document. If the user expects Tab to perform a document action it's a bit annoying if the end up leaving the document, so we should either have it do something (next paragraph?) or prevent default.
In table cells Tab should move to the next cell (as in Google Docs, LOffice etc.) fixed
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Release | None | T84936 Release VisualEditor-MediaWiki as "1.0" | ||
| Resolved | Esanders | T72665 Tab/Shift-Tab behaviour in contexts other than list indent/outdent (e.g. tables) | |||
| Resolved | DLynch | T119545 Pressing Tab/Shift-Tab in a table cell should move you to the next/previous table cell | |||
| Resolved | Esanders | T119546 Pressing Tab/Shift-Tab in the last/first cell in a row should move you to the first/last cell in the next/previous row, and create said row if necessary |
(In reply to Ed Sanders from comment #0)
Current (Shift+)Tab (De-)indents a list item, but in any other context it
falls back to native behaviour and ends up blurring the whole document. If
the user expects Tab to perform a document action it's a bit annoying if the
end up leaving the document, so we should either have it do something (next
paragraph?) or prevent default.
Yeah; how do we help keyboards users / those with screen-readers / etc. get to the toolbar for actions? GDocs uses Alt-… to get to theirs, can we assume that that works for them and can we use it?
In table cells Tab should move to the next cell (as in Google Docs, LOffice
etc.)
… and if you're at the last cell of the last row, insert a new row of empty cells, and focus the first cell of the new row.
This is a nice-to-have feature but it isn't critical to any of the common edit workflows for the user groups targeted right now, so we decided in the meeting to remove it from the Q3 blockers list at the triage on 2015-02-11.
… and if you're at the last cell of the last row, insert a new row of empty cells, and focus the first cell of the new row.
If tabbing in the last cell of the last row gets you a new row, then how do you get out of the table? Arrow keys, presumably? (That doesn't work now.)