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Quick Tip: Use Tab Characters in Textarea Boxes in Firefox

If you've ever wanted to be able to use tab characters in multi-line textboxes in Firefox, then you are in luck because somebody created a Firefox extension that allows you to do just that.

By default it just maps the tab key to actually insert a tab character:

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The nice thing about this extension is that you can assign a custom key to insert the tabs if you don't want to lose the normal tabbing between fields functionality.

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It would probably be best to map another unused key to insert tabs so that you don't break the regular tabbing. The one thing I did notice is that you can insert tabs, but you can't do shift+tab to remove a tab like you can in many applications.

Download Tabinta from Mozilla Addons

The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. When he's not coming up with great how-to articles, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 08/2/07 and tagged with: Firefox, Firefox & Internet

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