Tab behavior and the tag picker

[Jack Baty]

When tabbing into the Tag field, a list of tags (tag picker?) pops up and I can either click to select or type a tag name. The problem is that when I don't want to add a tag (90% of the time for me), tabbing out of the tag field does not dismiss the tag picker. Seems like it should. I have to instead grab the mouse and click somewhere outside of the tag picker. I often hit Escape thinking that will dismiss it, but doing that tries to cancel the entire new tiddler.

So 2 things I'd like to know...

1. Can the tag field be removed from the tab rotation altogether? I'd prefer in most cases to tab directly from the Name field to the Text field, skipping everything else.

2. If not, is there a way that the tag picker can be dismissed as soon as either the tag field loses focus or the Escape key is pressed?

Thanks.

Jack

[PMario]

Hi Jack,

I do have a workaround.

• If you tab into the tag-editor
• tab 1 more time and the dropdown chevron is selected.
  
• If you hit [space] bar now, the tag-popub will be closed.

Not a real solution, but it should work with 2 more "clicks"

-mario

[Jack Baty]

That does work as a an alternative way to dismiss the tag picker, thanks.

[Chris Aldrich]

Something similar vexes me from an accessibility perspective. When I do want to add a tag, I can start typing and it will give me the ability to choose a variety of tags. It would be nice if I could use the tab to select one of those available tags and then hit enter to enter and potentially then choose another tag or move on. Instead when I tab, it just keeps moving through the UI that appears underneath the tag section as Jack mentioned. To choose a tag I have to leave the keyboard and use the mouse instead.

Are there workarounds for this that I'm not seeing?

[Saq Imtiaz]

The ability to to choose tags from the dropdown using the keyboard has been implemented and should hopefully ship out with the next version of TiddlyWiki after a bit more testing.

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/4458

A very welcome change as I too find the current behaviour to be one of the chief drawbacks of the editing experience.