# Improvement to Tab order? (keyboard field navigation) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Tags:** keyboard\ **Created:** [September 9, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvement-to-tab-order-keyboard-field-navigation/966 "2020-09-09T17:40:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvement-to-tab-order-keyboard-field-navigation/966/1 "2020-09-09T17:40:52Z")
Although I am not a keyboard shortcut zealot, I do like to keep hands on the keyboard when possible as it speeds interaction in many cases. I am finding that, in trying to fill out information in Entity forms (Fields), it is taking a lot longer than it needs to as there appear to be functions of each Field that are being “selected” by tabbing, but are not actually operable, nor what I want to be moving to next. In my opinion tab should move consecutively between data entry mode for each field, linearly down the form. I would say data entry is by far the most typical interaction with Fields once they are setup, so it should get priority in navigation, especially with the keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvement-to-tab-order-keyboard-field-navigation/966/2 "2020-09-14T06:25:34Z")
Definitely agree with this! As much spreadsheet like functionality would be very useful! This is a big bonus of how the big “three” of Airtable/Notion/Coda work! ---
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvement-to-tab-order-keyboard-field-navigation/966/3 "2021-07-19T19:50:07Z")
Kind of hard to believe this quality of life improvement hasn’t yet been tackled. Fibery continues to be a mouse-heavy app for me as a result. 😑 ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvement-to-tab-order-keyboard-field-navigation/966/4 "2021-07-19T20:43:30Z")
Currently in an entity view you have to hit `Tab` _three_ times to move from one field to the next! 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvement-to-tab-order-keyboard-field-navigation/966/5 "2021-07-19T21:01:26Z")
Precisely! I’m fortunate that I don’t have a lot of new entities to add these days. Mostly just maintenance. But god help anyone inputting a lot of data for the first time. It _sort of_ works better in Table view, but there are issues there too (which I should probably report separately). ---
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/improvement-to-tab-order-keyboard-field-navigation/966/6 "2022-02-11T19:01:38Z")
Keyboard interaction in Entity view still really needs a lot of work. I guess nobody else really minds this since it hasn’t come up again since? I do forget about it for a while as I’ve gotten used to the limitation, but ultimately it is pretty bad that it works the way it does, still requiring 3x tabs to move around, but perhaps worse than that, some fields are difficult/impossible to trigger/select options from the keyboard, and other issues too. 😑 I don’t know, maybe this is way harder to fix than I think it is? If so, I get it being lower priority. I just assumed tab order could simply be adjusted, unusual controls (e.g. grab/drag handle) could be removed from tab order, etc. with a few days of work or something. 🤷‍♂️