How to disable tab key navigation in form fields.

  • thinkinabox
    Asked on March 18, 2019 at 11:49 AM
  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on March 18, 2019 at 1:12 PM

    Could you please explain further what you need? Do you want to add tabs in your form? This is possible with the Form Tabs widget: https://widgets.jotform.com/widget/form_tabs 

    Follow this guide to add it in your form: https://www.jotform.com/help/252-How-to-Add-a-Widget-to-Your-Form 

    Let us know if you need more help.

  • thinkinabox
    Replied on March 18, 2019 at 1:43 PM
    We have had several customers saying they used tab and it closed their form or did not save their input when they moved to the next field using tab.
    Using tab is not an unusual way to move from field to field as I do it myself and have seen settings in software to turn this in and off.
    Thank you so much for your help!
    LisaYanda@outlook.com
    325-650-7559
    ...
  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on March 18, 2019 at 1:57 PM

    Unfortunately, we don't have a feature to disable tab navigation. What you could do is to require the fields: https://www.jotform.com/help/546-How-to-Set-a-Field-as-Required-or-Non-Required 

    As well, you can enable the auto-fill feature, so the data is stored in the browser's local storage, so if the close the window, they can come back to the same browser and see their information: https://www.jotform.com/help/227-How-to-Enable-Auto-Fill-on-Forms 

  • thinkinabox
    Replied on March 18, 2019 at 2:43 PM
    Thanks for the information.
    LisaYanda@outlook.com
    325-650-7559
    ...