# How to turn off tab + space submitting a reply?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-turn-off-tab-space-submitting-a-reply/110184>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [26.Февраль.2019 22:33:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-turn-off-tab-space-submitting-a-reply/110184 "2019-02-26T22:33:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [28.Февраль.2019 22:26:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-turn-off-tab-space-submitting-a-reply/110184/38 "2019-02-28T22:26:24Z")

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> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> If you really wanted to you can override the handlebars template

Thanks for that idea. Unfortunately I can’t do this as a user.

As mentioned before, I think we can close this topic.  
It was news to me that tab and space is a thing to submit text, especially since I don’t use reddit or stackoverflow often enough to have noticed that they behave the same way.  
All the UIs I use on a daily basis don’t do that, so after I started to use discourse more often, I noticed this behavior.

I’m a fully aware that the industry is not going to change its way.

All I am saying is that it is easy to invoke Submit by accident (which in my opinion shouldn’t be the case - accessibility or not. It’s even easier to make this mistake when you are disabled and can only use one hand, thus accessibilty features should make your life **easier** not harder).

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