MacOS – Keyboard shortcut: shift+tab in chrome does wrong thing

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I'm a new mac user really (really) struggling to learn the mac keyboard shortcuts. One that is just killing me right now is navigating forms in Chrome.

Say I hit Tab to go to the next element in a form. When i hit Shift+Tab to try to return to that element, instead of going back up the form, Chrome navigates to the previous tab.

How do I fix this? My strong preference is for Shift-Tab to simply reverse-navigate the form – that is pretty standard behavior..

Best Answer

As a workaround, or just to check whether the problem is with Google Chrome or something else, install this extension.

To configure it to go to the last input, type in Shift + Tab in Shortcut Key and as the Action, click Browser Action > Inner Page Action > Focus on the previous input element.

You could also try Reset Browser Settings and then try going back in a form in Incognito Mode - +Shift+N