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Globally Disable Tab Key on Page

How can I globally disable the use of the tab key on page? I found this question, but it uses jQuery and I am not using jQuery. I know I can set tabIndex equal to -1 to disable keyboard focus, but this is for a GWT web application that uses GWT-Ext, mixed with SmartGWT, and OpenLayers so it would be easier to just set it once in the page for the entire set of controls (and there are over a hundred different controls).

Solution

  • I ended up having to add this in my EntryPoint class using SmartGWT:

    Event.addNativePreviewHandler(new NativePreviewHandler()
{
   @Override
   public void onPreviewNativeEvent(NativePreviewEvent event)
   {
      // tab is key 9
      if (event.getNativeEvent().getKeyCode() == 9)
      {
         event.cancel();
      }
   }
});