437968 - Unable to use tab key inside text editor. Pressing tab key takes the focus out of the editor. But it works upto firefox 2.0.0.14

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426690

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ranjith Pandi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

Unable to use tab key inside text editor. Pressing tab key takes the focus out of the editor. But it works upto firefox 2.0.0.14

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to some text editor
2.Use tab key to move the cursor
3.
Actual Results:  
Cursor focus moves out of the text editor

Expected Results:  
Focus should be within the editor

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

For normal textareas (such as the one for Bugzilla comments), Tab has been "move focus from the textarea" rather than "insert a Tab spacing character" for years.  designMode (rich text editing) recently changed to match this; see bug 426690.