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The ONE thing that will drive your Top Commentors crazy

The one thing in reading and commenting on alot of blogs not just small blogs either,popular ones with custom themes have this problem too.

What is the one thing you will do when finished typing the comment? You click submit.

The problem lies in that instead of making it simple and allowing you to reach the submit button by pressing tab once and then enter, they make it to where you have to scroll down and click submit with your pointer.

You’re probally thinking this isnt that big of a deal but for those of us with laptops and average resolutions(1024×768) this really is a pain.

Maybe I’m over reacting, what do you think? Should the tab from typing the comment go directly to the submit button or instead to advertising like Shoemoney does or to the search bar like Ben of Bloggingexperiment does?

Update: I looked through the Brians Threaded Plugin code and the bug that caused this annoying little problem is that Brian simply forgot to give the submit button a tab index. Im surprised this has yet to be fixed within the plugin itself, its so easy.

So to solve this problem all you have to do is assign a tab index to the button.

Current:<input onclick=”onAddComment();” name=”addcommentbutton” type=”button” id=”addcommentbutton” value=”Add comment” />

Fix:<input onclick=”onAddComment();” name=”addcommentbutton” type=”button” id=”addcommentbutton” value=”Add comment” tabindex=”5″ />