how to tab inside a text field? (not tab to a different text field)

[springframework]

How would i make pressing tab when your inside a text field actually tab the text ... make a large space.

[Pleh]

this isnt as easy as it should be, but you can listen for the key press event then insert a tab character at the text boxes current position

[sa6k0o0]

so there is no easy way to do this ....

[dr_zeus]

In addition to Pleh's explanation of using the keyboard event, you may also need to listen for the focusOut event to cancel it.

[Hickeroar]

I ran across this thread while looking for a way to do this. I couldn't find an actual tutorial anywhere on how to set it up, so just in case someone runs across this again and can't figure it out, I wrote up a tutorial for exactly how it can be done. I looked for a couple days (on and off) for a way to just DO it, but there doesn't appear to be a truly "easy" answer. Luckily, doing it the "hard way" doesn't prove too terribly difficult once you figure out the quirks.

Here's a link to the tutorial:
http://launchcms.com/ria-and-flex/how-to-enable-tab-key-in-flex-flash-textarea/