One thing I am regularly frustrated with is the lack of ability to enter a TAB into a web form. There are times when you want to use TAB spacing, but are relegated to hitting the spacebar a bunch of times. With Tabinta — Tab In Textarea — that problem just disappears. One obvious drawback is you will no longer be able to tab through forms with a textarea element; you’ll have to grab for that mouse.

One commenter of the plugin says, “Cntrl-Tab should insert a tab if Firefox follows the MS multi-line programming SDK.” This comment would be perfect if we hadn’t just discussed that the Ctrl-Tab keystroke cycles through tabs in Firefox and IE7. I tried a bunch of keystroke combinations, but nothing worked. I was a little excited when I found Option-Tab created a tab space in the OS X Spotlight search field, but that’s pretty much it. It kinda works in Safari text fields, but not textarea fields.

If anyone out there is game, I’d love to see a Firefox plugin similar to Tabinta, but one that used the Ctrl-Alt-Tab (and Ctrl-Cmd-Tab on Mac) keystroke — or something along those lines — to add a tab. I’d be forever indebted to you, especially if it works with the Web Developer plugin for editing CSS. Just figured I’d throw that out there.