What is Tab key?
[[Image:Keyboard-left keys.jpg|thumb|Tab key on a standard [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[Keyboard (computing)|keyboard]] (on upper left)]] The '''tab key''' (short for '''tabulator key'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://machinesoflovinggrace.com/ptf/UnderwoodPortableGallery.html|title=Underwood Portable Typewriter Gallery|accessdate=2011-04-09|archive-date=2011-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222053316/http://machinesoflovinggrace.com/ptf/UnderwoodPortableGallery.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> or '''tabular key''')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.machinesoflovinggrace.com/manuals/Underwood3-5manual.pdf|title=Instructions for Using the Underwood Typewriter|accessdate=2011-04-09}}</ref> is a key on a [[computer keyboard]], found right above the [[caps lock]] key on the far left. It is used to take the [[cursor]] to the next [[tab stop]]. In [[word processor]] applications, the tab key usually moves the cursor to the next [[tab stop]]. In most other [[Graphical user interfaces and consoles|graphical]] [[computer program|applications]], the tab key shifts the focus to the next [[GUI widget|control or widget]]. ==Related pages== * [[Indent style]] == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html ''Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War''] by Jamie Zawinski *[http://adamspiers.org/computing/why_no_tabs.html ''Why I prefer no tabs in source code''] by Adam Spiers *[http://derkarl.org/why_to_tabs.html ''Why I love having tabs in source code''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130014653/http://derkarl.org/why_to_tabs.html |date=2005-11-30 }} *[http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ ''Elastic tabstops - the solution to the tabs-versus-spaces issue''] {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Computer keyboard]] [[Category:Control characters]]