Opera Mail: cannot insert TAB character in message

[danieltuzes]

danieltuzes last edited by

During writing a HTML Formatted message, I cannot insert a TAB (\t) from the keyboard, because it moves the focus from the message textarea to the font selector area. It is not convenient, because during writing a Plain Text message, it inserts a TAB (\t) character as expected. Even worse, if you don't pay attention and keep typing, you'll end up your text messed up with formatting.

I suggest to modify this behavior, e.g. make it possible, to chose what the tab key should do.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Opera Mail stopped being developed about four years ago so I guess nothing will change.

Don't know if there is a workaround for this.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

You can insert tab with the "Convert hex to Unicode" keyboard shortcut, if they still have it ... looks like they do. The ASCII code for Tab is (hex)09, so if you type 09 then press Ctrl-Shift-X it'll convert the "09" to a tab character. Just make sure whatever is in front of the numbers is not a valid hexadecimal digit (0-9, A-F, a-f) or it may be converted too.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Note that a tab character in HTML is collapsed to a signal space visually unless its in a PRE block.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

so if you type 09 then press Ctrl-Shift-X it'll convert the "09" to a tab character

:eek:
Tested! :yes:

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