I know that there has been a similar question asked here very recently, but I was wondering if it was possible to tab between buttons on default Mac OS X dialog boxes?
I already have the All controls option enabled in System Preferences → Keyboard & Mouse → Keyboard Shortcuts, but no joy.
If you enable Full Keyboard Access by setting it to all controls, you should be able to tab between options and select by hitting spacebar, at least for OS X 10.5:
While @ruddzw's (chosen) answer works, it can slow you down in other areas simply from the sheer number of controls there are to tab through.
@NReilingh presents a different approach, and the semantics behind it:
So in the example:
As @Kevin Reid points out, ⌘+delete works here as well.
In Keyboard preferences under
Keyboard Shortcuts
Full Keyboard Access:
Switch to All Controls
instead ofText Boxes and Lists Only
Is there a specific dialog you're having trouble with? With "All controls" enabled I can tab around every control of every Mac OS X dialog I've tested just now.
To enable navigation using Tabs from the command line type:
When browsing with Safari, you can also tab between all HTML elements on the page using Option+Tab (otherwise Tab would only stop on the browser toolbar controls and quick bookmarks)