Any way to control cursor location when tabbing into the editor?

If you tab into the editor it will by default goes to the start of the editor. If you move the cursor somewhere in the editor and do other stuff on the page and then tab into the editor again it will go back to the previous cursor position.

I have users asking for tabbing into the editor to go to the END of the text always. I've been digging through the source code for how this is handled but can't seem to find it. Any way to configure this or know where in the code this is handled so I can modify it directly?

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 14:43

sebstefanov

Joined: 03/02/2012

Posts: 1329

If memory serves me right,

If memory serves me right, the browser has control over the Tab key, so it will be hard to modify its behavior in CKEditor. There are a few things you can do, as explained here and here.

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Fri, 05/17/2013 - 19:59

Cyclone112

Joined: 17/01/2013

Posts: 4

First link you linked to your

First link you linked to your own machines samples seb :). But I found what you were referring to here

Unfortunately both links you added don't satisfy what I need. I did however find the following snippet of code found in the documentation in the selectRanges function

// Move selection to the end of the editable element.
var range = editor.createRange();
range.moveToPosition( range.root, CKEDITOR.POSITION_BEFORE_END );
editor.getSelection().selectRanges( [ ranges ] );

I decided to place that inside the CKEDITOR.on('focus'... function and I removed the s in the selectRanges call as that's a typo in the documentation. This has the desired result(the user can type and it will be at the end of the document) BUT the cursor doesn't show in the editor now so a user won't know the editor has focus... sigh. Any ideas from anyone? I'll keep plugging away...