# Activer la touche Tab dans l'éditeur Markdown

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/enabling-the-tab-key-in-markdown-editor/20666>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** composer\
**Created:** [Octobre 1, 2014, 4:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enabling-the-tab-key-in-markdown-editor/20666 "2014-10-01T16:54:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![robreed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robreed/32/36296_2.png) [@robreed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robreed)\
**Post date:** [Octobre 14, 2015, 3:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enabling-the-tab-key-in-markdown-editor/20666/10 "2015-10-14T15:13:51Z")

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This has always bugged me. And I realize it’s not specific to Discourse. But it’s my understanding that Discourse is about ‘reimagining what a modern Internet discussion platform should be today’.

I’m wondering how other people handle it. I fully understand and appreciate the browser convention. This doesn’t change the fact that tab is valid content. Also, it’s preserved when copying and pasting content into the editor. I see it as 2 separate but overlapping issues.

The browser convention issue is resolved with…

> [@Enabling the tab key in markdown editor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enabling-the-tab-key-in-markdown-editor/20666/8):
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> Tab was used to iterate from field to field for as long as I can remember in computer GUIs. Per Wikipedia, tab as a key to move from field to field in a GUI dates back to at least 1987.

But that leaves the content issue.

I’m not bringing this up just to be pedantic. I’m playing around with Discourse as a place to post code and markup snippets and this is something that does come up.

Cheers

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