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wjbryant
taboverride
JavaScript2012–2012
wjbryant / taboverride

taboverride

A lightweight library that allows tabs to be entered in textarea elements

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
86GitHub stars
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What it is

A lightweight library that allows tabs to be entered in textarea elements

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-11-30 22:19:45 UTC to 2012-12-08 19:46:53 UTC.

012012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 302012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 42012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 8

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 302012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 12012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 22012-12-02 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 32012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 42012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 52012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 62012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 72012-12-07 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 82012-12-08 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-09 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Very interesting. I recently explored several different projects for tab-enabled textareas and currently use https://github.com/wjbryant/taboverride. One interesting thing about most implementations of tabs in textareas is that the insertion of a tab typically breaks the browser undo/redo stack for the textarea. This guy implemented it correctly though as mentioned in the bug filed on tabIndent.js: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/13tfpf/burned_th...
In tabIndent.js - A JavaScript Library For Tab-Enabled TextAreas

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