Prevent default jquery-ui tab behaviour when using keyboard navigation - jquery-ui

Question

I'm using jquery-ui tabs and jeditable to inline edit the tab title. But navigating with the cursors in the editable text leads jquery-ui to navigate to the tab next to it.
How can i prevent the jquery default behaviour (disable keyboad navigation in tabs).
Cheers,
Broncko

Answer 1

Solved it by:
$.widget( "ui.tabs", $.ui.tabs, {
options: {
keyboard: true
},
_tabKeydown: function(e) {
if(this.options.keyboard) {
this._super( '_tabKeydown' );
} else {
return false;
}
}
});

Answer 2

A better solution from here http://www.daveoncode.com/2013/09/18/how-to-disable-keyboard-navigation-in-jquery-ui-tabs/ :
jQuery('.foo').tabs({
activate: function(e, ui) {
e.currentTarget.blur();
}
});

Answer 3

It's possible to unbind keydown events when tabs are initialized:
$('#tabs').tabs({
create : function() {
var data = $(this).data('tabs');
data.tabs.add(data.panels).off('keydown');
}
});

Answer 4

Just had to do this myself. This is what worked for me:
$.widget("ui.tabs", $.ui.tabs, {
_tabKeydown: function (event) {
if (event.keyCode !== 38 && event.keyCode !== 40) {
this._super(event);
}
}
});
You can substitute any combination of keys using event.keyCode and even make it customizable with something like:
$.widget("ui.tabs", $.ui.tabs, {
options: {
overrideKeyCodes: [],
},
_tabKeydown: function (event) {
var isOverride = false;
if (Object.prototype.toString.call(this.options.overrideKeyCodes) === '[object Array]') {
for (i = 0; i < this.options.overrideKeyCodes.length; i++) {
if (event.keyCode === this.options.overrideKeyCodes[i]) {
isOverride = true;
break;
}
}
}
if (!isOverride) {
this._super(event);
}
}
});
$('#MyTabs').tabs({ overrideKeyCodes: [ 38, 40 ] });
Or even better you can add your own custom behaviors:
$.widget("ui.tabs", $.ui.tabs, {
options: {
overrideKeyCodes: {},
},
tabKeydown: function (event) {
if (this.options.overrideKeyCodes.hasOwnProperty(event.keyCode)) {
if (typeof this.options.overrideKeyCodes[event.keyCode] === 'function') {
this.options.overrideKeyCodes[event.keyCode](event, this._super(event));
}
}
else {
this._super(event);
}
}
});
$('#MyTabs').tabs({
overrideKeyCodes: {
40: function (event, callback) {
console.log(event.keyCode);
},
38: function (event, callback) {
console.log(event.keyCode);
if (callback) {
callback();
}
},
32: null //just let the space happen
}
});