How to select tinyMCE textarea when pressing tab key?

This is impossible with conventional tab indexes as TinyMCE actually hides the <textarea> and creates an <iframe> with the editor in it. You could make a work around by forcing focus on the editor in the blur event of the previous element in javascript, here is ajQuery snipped of the top of my head:

$('#prev-input').blur(function(){
    tinyMCE.get('textarea').focus();
});

Then as soon as the user leaves the previous input focus would jump to the TinyMCE editor, you could possibly add a blur() method as well to got to the next element.

I resolved this with adding 'tabfocus' to plugins and then add tabfocus_elements : ":prev,:next"

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/wiki.php/Plugin:tabfocus

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/wiki.php/tabfocus_elements

There is a plugin solved it

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1657397&group_id=103281&atid=738747

I known it from TinyMCE forum

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=813