Description: This sets the tab order when you are making a post, to tab from subject, to body, then to submit button - so that you can complete typing your message, and hit tab then enter to submit it. Version 1.1 fixes my instructions and adds instructions for the edit post page.
Info/Instructions: Simple template edit. Should be standard.
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Josh...just noticed this mod, and it leads me to ask you a question that was on my list...
where is the cursor when the login screen (and any other fill in screen) comes up???
For example, when I go to the login screen, I don't see the cursor, and so I have to move the pointer over to the login name entry screen, and click, THEN I can start entering text. Half the time I forget I have to move the cursor and waste my time typing before I realize nothing is happening. Wouldn't it be more convenient if the cursor were automatically placed initially in the first entry space for the login screen (and any other entry screen)?
Your mod partly solves the problem for the post, reply, edit screens. I only checked the post, but your first tab now puts the cursor in the subject line, so it solves the problem if you know the tab does that! And of course you can now tab to the body and to the continue button, if you know about it. (For which reason, when I put this mod on our new board, I'll also put a note somewhere that mentions it to users!)
But can things be set up on the post, etc, screens, as well as the login screen!, so that the cursor is already visible in the appropriate space, so users can start typing right off?
Maybe there's something that precludes setting things up this way, but I'm real curious about it!
There is a mod here by JustDave that changes the "focus" of the cursor on the login screen. It may need to be tweaked a bit for the newer version and to include on the other pages - but here it is. It uses javascript to choose where the cursor starts.
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