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  • verb Present participle of tab.

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Examples

  • Patent and Trademark Office on a process known as tabbing through a Web page in order to find links.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Peter Zura 2004

  • Firefox is one of several browsers (including Opera and Apple Computer's Safari) that have emerged with exciting new features, such as "tabbing" (to easily navigate multiple sites) and full support for the hot new RSS technology (which lets you "subscribe" to Web sites).

    Periscope 2007

  • One problem nitpicky, perhaps that I have is that here on the comments page, I'm used to "tabbing" from the Word Verification box to the User Name box to the password box and that no longer works - or at least it doesn't seem to work for me.

    A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender ricklibrarian 2006

  • Therefore you have to open the multiline editor separately for every single item to make changes in lieu of just 'tabbing' through the values in the Enhanced Attribute Editor.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • Well, now I can't log into the computer because I can't input the password because as soon as you click with the mouse on the password box and start to type, the system starts "tabbing" through everything on the screen in an endless loop ... even in SAFE MODE.

    Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com RedFury 2010

  • Therefore you have to open the multiline editor separately for every single item to make changes in lieu of just 'tabbing' through the values in the Enhanced Attribute Editor.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • Not only that, he lined up Sean Chumura, "a cyberwarfare and computer forensics expert" who is also [LINK NSFW] helping Perfect 10 in its lawsuit against Google, to testify that "it was possible for plaintiff, while 'tabbing' through the registration page, to inadvertently hit the space bar and thereby 'check' the terms and conditions box."

    Marketing Law Blog Eric 2010

  • Therefore you have to open the multiline editor separately for every single item to make changes in lieu of just 'tabbing' through the values in the Enhanced Attribute Editor.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • Therefore you have to open the multiline editor separately for every single item to make changes in lieu of just 'tabbing' through the values in the Enhanced Attribute Editor.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • They also allow for the modification of promotion settings and interactive event handling, such as tabbing and mouseovers.

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2009

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