Re: [CKEditor Dev] #2740: Allow tab character to be inserted

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#2740: Allow tab character to be inserted
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Reporter: VBAssassin | Owner:
Type: New Feature | Status: confirmed
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: Core : Output Data | Version: FCKeditor 2.6.3
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by mgifford):

Is this still an issue in the latest version of CKEditor?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/2740#comment:2>
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#2740: Allow tab character to be inserted
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Reporter: VBAssassin | Owner:
Type: New Feature | Status: confirmed
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: Core : Output Data | Version: FCKeditor 2.6.3
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by j.swiderski):

Unfortunately it is.

Currently it is only possible to insert spaces (no tabs)
http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.config-cfg-tabSpaces.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/2740#comment:3>

[CKEditor]

#2740: Allow tab character to be inserted
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Reporter: VBAssassin | Owner:
Type: New Feature | Status: confirmed
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: Core : Output Data | Version: FCKeditor 2.6.3
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by GalaGalaxia):

8 years, and this is still an issue.

Pressing tab should also be intelligent. Inside a paragraph, it should
trigger adding the text-indent CSS property. Inside a list item it should
increase indentation, etc.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/2740#comment:4>

[CKEditor]

#2740: Allow tab character to be inserted
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Reporter: VBAssassin | Owner:
Type: New Feature | Status: confirmed
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: Core : Output Data | Version: FCKeditor 2.6.3
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by j.swiderski):

@GalaGalaxia since TAB character has no visual representation in HTML, you
are completely right with your intelligent approach here.

We already have indent plugin so we could perhaps add key handler to that
plugin so that it does the same as the button. At the moment it is
possible to indent list elements with tab key but it is not possible to
indent whole list when pressing tab in first list item (indent button
works that way). It is also not possible to indent paragraphs or divs that
way. [[BR]]
Such functionality would need to be enabled with configuration option
because not every one may want such behaviour and spaces might be ok for
them.

Sadly although interesting we don't consider this issue critical or
important at the moment thus we won't be working on it in the nearest
future. I'm sorry.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/2740#comment:5>