163232 - tabbing behavior in forms

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28583

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Phil Barton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721

pressing the tab key to navigate through forms is somewhat innefficient. 
tabbing to a text box should result in the text being hilighted, not just focussing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
using the tab key to navigate through forms should allow the user to quickly and
efficiently enter/edit data.  tabbing from one text box to another should result
in the text in the box being hilighted (for easy deletion/editting).  while the
text is highlighted, pressing the left arrow should result in the cursor moving
to the front of the value, pressing the right arrow should result in the cursor
moving to the end of the value.  the tabbing innefficiency results in mozilla
being kind of a bear for users who eBay or routinely enter data through
web-based interfaces.

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

interesting idea

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28583 ***