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Dave00

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Dec 2, 2003
883
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Pittsburgh
One of the annoying things about Safari is that if you're filling in a form, and you tab between fields, it won't highlight a pulldown menu. In any other browser, if a pulldown menu is the next field in a form, the menu will highlight when you tab to it, and typing in the first letter or two of a menu item will cause that item to be selected. (Geez, this is harder to describe than I imagined.)

Typically where you see this is a form where you fill in your address & city, and the states are listed in a pull-down menu. Another example: at http://maps.yahoo.com/, you can tab between Address & City/State, but not "My Locations."

Anyone know of a plugin or preference that will allow you to tab to a pulldown menu? This is driving me nuts!

Dave
 

hob

macrumors 68010
Oct 4, 2003
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London, UK
Dave00 said:
One of the annoying things about Safari is that if you're filling in a form, and you tab between fields, it won't highlight a pulldown menu. In any other browser, if a pulldown menu is the next field in a form, the menu will highlight when you tab to it, and typing in the first letter or two of a menu item will cause that item to be selected. (Geez, this is harder to describe than I imagined.)

Typically where you see this is a form where you fill in your address & city, and the states are listed in a pull-down menu. Another example: at http://maps.yahoo.com/, you can tab between Address & City/State, but not "My Locations."

Anyone know of a plugin or preference that will allow you to tab to a pulldown menu? This is driving me nuts!

Dave
Go to system preferences and enable full keyboard access! Enjoy!
 

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