is there a way to disable 'tab' on a input type='text'?

Question

is there a cross-browser solution to disable \'tab\' on a input type=\'text\' ?

Pressing \'tab\' moves you to the

Answer 1

Yes,check if the key pressed was tab, and if so, returns false:

    
    
    
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jQuery('.noTab').find('input,select,textarea').keydown(function (e) {
    if (e.which === 9) {
        return false;
    }
});

jQuery will allow this work on legacy browsers.

http://jsfiddle.net/JxMhY/

On that fiddle it shows 2 forms, one with the class "noTab" and one without, as tab/shift+tab are useful for many forms, but not the one which has a special "tab" action.