Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only opens inventory
Sorry about this I have looked into it extensively and worked together with our accessibility team. Right now we need to have a certain degree of accessibility in the game or we are not allowed to do any more updates. One of the requirements is to be able to navigate in menus without using the mouse. Tab was implemented to have that functionality and it takes president in the inventory since there is a button in there that needs to be accessible. Trying to fix this issue has highlighted several issues with our system for assigning buttons to specific actions. If we fix the bug with tab not having to be bound to accessibility we have to make it possible to rebind the focus of buttons. Doing that will clash with showing players online on a server which is tab by default and to fix this we need to do more extensive work on our underlying system. Right now it is out of scope for us to fix this in 1.14 but is definitely something we want to fix further on why it is postponed.
– Maria Lemón in this comment
The bug
Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only allows you to open your inventory. To close it you must push Esc. This does not happen with any other key.
For instance, if you bind this function to G, pushing G will both open and close your inventory.
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MC-145745'TAB' Key no longer viable for Open/Close InventoryDuplicateMC-145873Tab key does not work when bound to inventoryDuplicateMC-145988Remapped open inventory key not working properlyDuplicateMC-146084Open/Close Inventory key does not close inventory.DuplicateMC-146124Tab in survival inventory would not close itDuplicateMC-146212Cannot Close InventoryDuplicateMC-146382Tab key bind for inventory doesnt close inventoryDuplicateMC-146413Pressing the "Open/Close Inventory" button no longer closes the inventory.DuplicateMC-146462Inventory Exiting PreventedDuplicateMC-146475Inventory keybind change not working properlyDuplicateMC-146971"Tab" key works to open the inventory menu but not close itDuplicateMC-147029Having the inventory key bound to tab will open the inventory but wont close it.DuplicateMC-147045Inventory Key Set To TabDuplicateMC-147205I can't re-keybind my inventoryDuplicateMC-147482Inventory close bugDuplicateMC-147576Open/Close inventory key does not close inventoryDuplicateMC-147629Using TAB to open inventoryDuplicateMC-147958Inventory Open/Close KeyDuplicateMC-148076Inventory key doesn't close inventory when set to tabDuplicateMC-148194Setting "Tab" To Inventory Key Does Not Close InventoryDuplicateMC-148223The changed key does not work properly.DuplicateMC-1482691.14 inventory bugDuplicateMC-148281Binding TAB to open inventory wont let you close your inventory when pressing TAB againDuplicateMC-148450Rebinding Inventory Key to "Tab" does not allow you to close your inventory using the same buttonDuplicateMC-148720Inventory rebind key does not close inventory, only opens DuplicateMC-148789Tab key InventoryDuplicateMC-148857When inventory is set to 'Tab', you are unable to press tab again to close.DuplicateMC-148972changing controlsDuplicateMC-149021Can't close inventoryDuplicateMC-149134Inventory key bound to tab doesn't close inventoryDuplicateMC-149149The inventary doesn't close.DuplicateMC-149184Can't close inventory when key is bound to tabDuplicateMC-149194open/close inventory is bound to tab, only opens inventory and must be closed with escDuplicateMC-149199stänga inventorytDuplicateMC-149226Tab key not working as "open/close inventory"DuplicateMC-149227Not sure if this is really a bug however in the new update when yuo set your inventory button to TAB it doesnt let you use the same button to close the inventory.DuplicateMC-149241inventory will not exit after clicking inventory button twiceDuplicateMC-149249TAB inventory bugDuplicateMC-149258Inventory does not close using same button to OpenDuplicateMC-149270Cannot close inventoryDuplicateMC-149299can't close inventory with rebound keyDuplicateMC-149332When setting "tab" to "open/close" inventory, only opens doesnt closeDuplicateMC-149478Cant use TAB to close inventoryDuplicateMC-149543Tab button isn't working?DuplicateMC-149618Inventory rebind won't closeDuplicateMC-149622Inventory does not close with corresponding inventory button upon changing the keybind to "TAB"DuplicateMC-149628i can open inventory . but can't close inventory with same key.DuplicateMC-149629i can open inventory . but can't close inventory with same key.DuplicateMC-149632If Tab is set to open inventory, Tab does not also close the inventory.DuplicateMC-149639Unable to tab out of inventoryDuplicateMC-149698Setting inventory toggle to Tab will not let you close inventory with TabDuplicateMC-149733some keys not working for inventoryDuplicateMC-149839Open/Close InventoryDuplicateMC-149890Inventory IssueDuplicateMC-149906Tab doesn't close inventoryDuplicateMC-150154Open Inventory key issueDuplicateMC-150172Can't Press Key Again to Close InventoryDuplicateMC-150225Reassigned Inventory HotKey to "Tab"DuplicateMC-150232Cannot close inventory using Tab keyDuplicateMC-150313Tab won't close inventory when used as inventory keyDuplicateMC-150431Cannot close inventory when using "TAB" key!DuplicateMC-150502"Tab" button bugDuplicateMC-150653Open/Close not working for TABDuplicateMC-150662Unable to close inventory using tab.DuplicateMC-150698No se cierra el inventario tras cambiar los controlesDuplicateMC-150704Rebinding -inventory- to the "tab" key cannot be toggled to close/ affects chestsDuplicateMC-150766problem with hotkeyDuplicateMC-150812Rebinding Inventory to TabDuplicateMC-150868If inventory is set to TAB pressing TAB doesnt close inventoryDuplicateMC-150915Inventory Controls BrokenDuplicateMC-151145Open/Close Inventory TAB does not workDuplicateMC-151308using tab for inventory issueDuplicateMC-151484Tab button does nothing but highlight the bookDuplicateMC-151538Tab doesn't close InventoryDuplicateMC-151822"Tab" key does not work correctly as a inventory keybindDuplicateMC-152064Have to press ESC to exit inventory, pressing inventory key doesn't workDuplicateMC-152077Key Mapping BugDuplicateMC-152222Инвентарь DuplicateMC-152316Tab cannot be assigned to inventory hotkey correctlyDuplicateMC-152670i cant close my inventory with the open/close keybindDuplicateMC-152795Changes to the tab key in 1.14DuplicateMC-153394Tab opens inventory but doesn't close it.DuplicateMC-153491TAB- InventoryDuplicateMC-153809Inventory is not closing on the custom hotkey tabDuplicateMC-154319Can only close inventory with ESC if inventory bound to TABDuplicateMC-154943Using Tab as a hotkey does not work correctly.DuplicateMC-154963Inventory gui and the tab key 1.13.2 and aboveDuplicateMC-155546cant close inventoryDuplicateMC-156085Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only allows you to open your inventory.DuplicateMC-156225When changing the 'open/close inventory' control to 'TAB', you cannot exit back out of the inventory with 'TAB'.DuplicateMC-156590Tab can't close inventoryDuplicateMC-157210(1.14.3) Can't close inventory when using non-standard inventory key-bind. DuplicateMC-157861Keybinding Doesnt workDuplicateMC-158155TAB as inventory button does not fully workDuplicateMC-158768Inventory doesn't closeDuplicateMC-158790TAB HotkeyDuplicateMC-158792Inventory not close-able with Tabulator keyDuplicateMC-159312InventoryDuplicateMC-160573Closing your inventory doesn't work when open inventory is rebound to TAB.DuplicateMC-162718Assigning 'Tab' key to inventory doesn't close UIDuplicateMC-164666Can't drop item when in inventory with different drop keyDuplicateMC-165692Remapping inventory button partially broken.DuplicateMC-166976Rebinding Open/Close Inventory won't close inventoryDuplicateMC-170315Closing inventory doesn't work when changing the buttonDuplicateMC-170565tab doesn't work for inventoryDuplicateMC-171606Rebind issue!DuplicateMC-171764Open/Close Inventory Bound to the Tab Key wont Close on Tab PressDuplicateMC-171950키지정오류DuplicateMC-184120HOTKEY TAB (Slot 3) dont work in inventoryDuplicateMC-184178HOTKEY TAB (Slot 3) dont work in inventoryDuplicateMC-189573Tab does not work as an exit inventory bindDuplicateMC-190353TAB button can't be used to close inventoryDuplicateMC-190959Can't close inventory with rebound keyDuplicateMC-192962all updates after 1.13.x dont allow the player to use tab to close the inventory Duplicaterelates to6
MC-174648You can unhighlight the recipe book button of crafting interfaces FixedMC-147727Unable to close anvil using inventory key without taking the input item out, if textfield has focusConfirmedMC-156810Binding inventory key to mouse buttons does not allow the inventory to close without pressing ESC
LowMC-577Mouse buttons block all inventory controls that are not default
NormalMC-147184Unable to close anvil using inventory key without clicking awayFixedMC-193125Cannot use "Inventory" key to write in recipe book, it closes GUI instead (Default: "E")Fixed- Fixed
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Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only opens inventory
Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only allows you to open your inventory. To close it you must push Esc. This does not happen with any other key. For instance, if you bind this function to G, pushing G will both open and close your inventory.
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Moderator NoticeSorry about this I have looked into it extensively and worked together with our accessibility team. Right now we need to have a certain degree of accessibility in the game or we are not allowed to do any more updates. One of the requirements is to be able to navigate in menus without using the mouse. Tab was implemented to have that functionality and it takes president in the inventory since there is a button in there that needs to be accessible. Trying to fix this issue has highlighted several issues with our system for assigning buttons to specific actions. If we fix the bug with tab not having to be bound to accessibility we have to make it possible to rebind the focus of buttons. Doing that will clash with showing players online on a server which is tab by default and to fix this we need to do more extensive work on our underlying system. Right now it is out of scope for us to fix this in 1.14 but is definitely something we want to fix further on why it is postponed.
– Maria Lemón in this comment
The bug
Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only allows you to open your inventory. To close it you must push Esc. This does not happen with any other key.
For instance, if you bind this function to G, pushing G will both open and close your inventory.
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Duplicate of MC-145691.
Resolved as a duplicate of MC-145691; this is an issue with the Tab key, not with the drop keybinding.
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This is intended, see MC-145691
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Duplicate of MC-145691
If you bind the open inventory key to a mouse button, it doesn't allow for closing it after. This relates to MC-145691, although here the 4 and 5 mouse buttons shouldn't trigger other actions or when the cursor isn't pointing in an item and isn't holding anything for 1, 2 and 3.
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Likely relates to the fix of MC-145691.
Attempting to bind (unusual) alternative keys as the open/close inventory keybind causes the rebound key to only open, requiring use of ESC to close. This can be particularly tedious for those using right-sides of a keyboard.
In my personal use-example, I utilize a side mouse button (MOUSE5 or MOUSE4) as my inventory open/close bind, but it will only open, will not close.
I am pretty certain this is directly relative to MC-145691, though why that was fixed without impact on this bug I'm not sure.
For what it's worth this bug at least with the mouse buttons has been around years, just never got around to reporting it until now (finally bugged me enough).
Ah thanks on referencing that, I did try looking but my use of terms inventory and close mostly just kept bringing up ones related around other keys (or the original tab one), and since a dev said about opening up a new report in MC-145691 (but the person they said it to apparently never did), figured I'd open one up. Seems there's a surprising amount of inventory binding issues with all sorts of buttons over the years lol.
It was supposed to be fixed MC-145691 maybe not?
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If you bind "Open/Close Inventory" to a mouse button, you can only close inventory by pressing Esc.
Similar to MC-145691, but only appears on mouse buttons.
I know a similar bug was resolved around the Tab key (MC-145691), but this is happening to me when I try to bind Mouse Button 4 or Mouse Button 5 to the action of "Open/Close Inventory" (that usually defaults to E). Clicking such mouse buttons will Open the Inventory, but doing so again will not Close it. It also does not Close other UI elements such as Villager trading windows. I've tested it against different keybinds and they do work as intended, so my guess is this is related to mouse-clicking events. I also had the same issue when testing the action to be keybound to Right-click of the mouse.
Confirmed, I have this issue as well. It seems the UI accessibility focus system, which also uses the TAB, is interfering with the inventory hotkey.
I concur. It would be very useful if this feature could be disabled or remapped.
Confirmed for 19w11b
By the way it does not even work for any other container like chests
Confirmed for 19w12a
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Yep, pretty annoying change, especially when the new TAB accessibility features don't effect any of the inventory UI's apart from Command Blocks as far as I can tell. Hopefully they fix this, or at least make it so if you assign TAB to inventory it will disable the new changes as a compromise, something I could easily live with
Confirmed for 19w13a
I noticed that pressing TAB when in the inventory highlights the recipe book button for some split seconds. So I figured they have coded a hotkey for opening/closing the recipe book but has not (yet) completed it. Because you can not find it in the controls section and it does not even work.
The proper solution would be to finish this hotkey and I believe that would not be too hard. Otherwise, just retract this feature so we can use TAB for the inventory. Personally, I am so used to it that I will not play without it.
Confirmed for 19w13b
Confirmed for 19w14a
Extremely annoying! Can confirm for 19w14b.
Was able to re-create this in Minecraft 19w14b.
Confirmed for 1.14 pre-1
Can confirm still a problem in 1.14 pre-2
Confirmed for 1.14 pre-3
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Confirmed for 1.14 pre-5
This problem seems to be caused by the tab key selecting the recipe book which overrides the close action. The simplest solution would be to disable the 'tab select' when the inventory button is bound to 'Tab'.
Confirmed for 1.14 release
Yes, same problem playing on Linux, 1.14 release.
Can confirm, 1.14 release on Linux.
I guess the most convenient solution would be to make the key for cycling through the trades or select the recipe book configurable. Then you can see the (tab) key is already bound or just change it to another key.
Confirmed on macOS. 1.14 release
Same issue for me. Java Edition 1.14, running on Windows 10.
Same issue here, 1.14 on Windows 10 and Linux.
Same issue, hope it gets resolved, 1.14 Windows 10
Confirmed for 1.14.1 pre-1
Confirmed for 1.14.1 pre-2
just updated to 1.14, windows 7, no mods, same issue. reeeeeally annoying.
Confirmed for 1.14.1 release
Confirmed for 1.14.1
Confirmed for 1.14.1
Confirmed for 1,14.2 Prerelease 1
Still in 1.14.2 Pre-Release 2
I understand the desire for this bug to get fixed, but you have no way to know it was postponed "for no reason" (comments being deleted have no bearing on that statement; they delete unhelpful discussion so they can focus on the bug at hand).
Also, the workaround is simple: press Escape to close menus for now. It's not that difficult to get used to, even if I would rather just be able to press Tab to close it as normal.
All they have to do to fix this is give us an option disable the ability to scroll through menus with the keyboard, or let us change the keys that do so. This should not have been a bug for a week let alone near 2 months. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Sorry about this I have looked into it extensively and worked together with our accessibility team. Right now we need to have a certain degree of accessibility in the game or we are not allowed to do any more updates. One of the requirements is to be able to navigate in menus without using the mouse. Tab was implemented to have that functionality and it takes president in the inventory since there is a button in there that needs to be accessible. Trying to fix this issue has highlighted several issues with our system for assigning buttons to specific actions. If we fix the bug with tab not having to be bound to accessibility we have to make it possible to rebind the focus of buttons. Doing that will clash with showing players online on a server which is tab by default and to fix this we need to do more extensive work on our underlying system. Right now it is out of scope for us to fix this in 1.14 but is definitely something we want to fix further on why it is postponed.
Two possible solutions for this issue that I can think of, Maria.
Having accessibility features is great and I applaud your work as a team for striving to add more, however this one in particular conflicts with many of the current user base. Both solutions will fix this while still having the feature in place.
The first is simple but may not be intuitive as tab is the navigation key across all software, which would make the second more desirable. Not many people who have tab set as their inventory key will need this accessibility feature so in addition to having it toggle-able, anyone with inventory bound to tab could have the feature disabled by default as opposed to the global default of it being enabled.
What if in addition to an option to disable/enable, there was a function key bound to toggle it? It would act in a similar manner to the way F11 toggles fullscreen. The client remembers that and it would work well for this I'd imagine. There are many vacant function keys available. So if someone accidentally disabled the feature, they could re-enable it by pressing the key?
Yeah, aren't there some free Function keys available? I feel like a way to toggle this Tab functionality (or even just offload it entirely onto an F key) would be a lot better than permanently removing a crucial game function on a very commonly used key.
The arrow keys also seem like a suitable replacement for using Tab.
Effectively, you could have both, and when Tab is rebound to open/close inventory, then Tab (and only Tab) would have its accessibility feature disabled. The arrow keys would still work as normal.
In text fields, this would have the effect of being able to focus into the field, and then to get out again, you would have to press up at the start of the text field (as it makes sense for the first press to act as Home on the first line) or down at the end. Left and right would simply shift between characters.
Arrow keys being assigned to navigating menus would definitely make more sense than spamming the tab key, moreso than tab being commonly bound as the inventory open/close button
These are all good ideas, but for the reasons that Maria Lemón mentioned above, they won't be implemented until 1.15 earliest.
I've been using Tab for 9 years. You've killed it for me.
Are there any plans on fixing this or do I have give up hope of playing any updates past 1.13 for the foreseeable future?
It's far from a perfect solution, but a friendly reminder that until they fix the issue (I don't see how it's so difficult to fix that 1.15 pre-releases are coming out with it) there is a work-around you can use to enjoy your game in the mean time.
Razer Synapse (if you have a Razer keyboard), iCUE (if you have a Corsair keyboard), Logitech SetPoint (for Logitech keyboards), SteelSeries Engine (for SteelSeries keyboards), KeyTweak, Map Keyboard, Sharp Keys, ATNSoft Key Remapper, and probably many more made by all kinds of third party people and gaming keyboard manufacturers all let you remap specific keys for as long as you have the program open/the profile set. You can download one of these and temporarily swap Tab and E while playing, and it'll go back to feeling like normal.
We shouldn't need additional software to enjoy games, but if we have to...
You actually cant remap your keyboard with Logitech Software, you will need a third person software to do that...
So now im literally not playing my world in 1.14.4, is horrible (at least for me) to play with other configuration.
It shouldn't be terribly hard to get used to pressing Esc to exit menus. It's not ideal, but it's become second nature to me and only took a day or two.
I tried, i lost.
I lost as well
We shouldn't have to get used to something that was previously a feature and now is not.
Also the reason it was changed (to allow the tab key to make menus more accessible) isn't even functional so it makes no sense to break it now.
Please prioritize this higher and make sure it makes it into 1.15.
Prio up please. I nearly totally skipped 1.14.x because of that bug.
The reason for why this has not been fixed yet has been explained by Maria Lemón in her comment above. Basically, the game needs to fulfil certain accessibility requirements, and fixing this bug seems to be fairly difficult with Minecraft's current GUI system if you don't want to break the ability to navigate through GUIs with Tab.
I'll ask whether the priority of this bug can be raised, but don't expect this issue to be fixed too soon.
Hi! any update on this bug? I've been waiting the entire year for 1.15 just for this.
I don't have any news to share besides what I've written above. 1.15 will most likely not address this issue.
I don't believe that is a valid point Ethan we don't know that for sure, still i ask, why does this bug still have a low priority? Surely there are more people than just the 109 votes and 68 watchers that want this resolved.
We haven't been able to enjoy the game at the fullest extent, the possibility of freely changing our hotkeys is a must for the play ability and enjoyment of the game, not having it translates to waning degrees of usage.
Stating this, I propose a change in the priority to at least a mid level.
There's been a lot of commenting on this ticket without additional information for diagnosing this issue. Just because you too are affected doesn't warrant commenting and emailing everyone else of that fact.
Mojang is aware of this ticket and its impact, which is the the purpose of the bug tracker. If you would like to contribute your name to the list, you may vote for the ticket which does not email everyone. Further discussion should occur elsewhere, like our reddit community or Discord.
Edit: I am very sorry Ezekiel, I didn't see your post until after I'd hit submit since I was typing before you posted yours.
I'm pretty sure Ethan has a valid point. Tab doesn't actually do anything but alienate players that have been using Tab as an inventory button for years.
As of right now, Tab literally doesn't do anything but highlight the recipe book button to be blue. You can't open the recipe book with it, enter, or any other key on the keyboard - you still have to move the mouse up to it and click it. (Technically maybe having the button blue makes it easier to see if you can't see the color green?) But once you've clicked it open with the mouse, Tab still doesn't do anything. It doesn't allow you to move through different items on the page, or tabs in the list... the only thing it does is turn the button blue... ...and also block you from using Tab as the inventory button.
It's quite literally making the game less accessible for a decent group of people (check the watchers and voters here, and do a quick search on Google/Minecraft Forums/Reddit. A lot of people are complaining) but doesn't actually help anyone.
Also, what I find most hilarious is the upper management. "Right now we need to have a certain degree of accessibility in the game or we are not allowed to do any more updates." sounds like a suit who has no idea what the game actually needs, but wants to announce to shareholders that they're making improvements to the game. "One of the requirements is to be able to navigate in menus without using the mouse" but yet you can't actually navigate the game without using the mouse. You can't open the recipe book (which as someone who has been playing since 2011... you don't need it to play the game anyway) or navigate through it, or craft anything with it. Or move items around in your inventory, or move items from the inventory to the crafting grid... you can only turn a button blue with Tab. Oh, and can no longer use it as a normal button.
I feel bad for the devs, I really do. I know it's not entirely their fault (they could make fixing a bug they introduced a higher priority). But it still comes off as making the game less accessible in the name of greater accessibility.
This is not a discussion forum. All further comments that don't add any new information to the ticket will be removed. This issue has been effectively postponed until the UI system is rewritten, and complaining here in the comments won't change that.
Ok, let me add a suggestion to the ticket.
You don't need to rewrite the UI to fix this issue. In the "Controls" dialog, on the "Open/Close Inventory" line, (and possibly in others) add a warning icon (⚠️) when it is set to "TAB" (or some other key that interferes with accessibility like ESC, Enter, etc.) and add a (accessible!) note to the setting that states that this setting might interfere with accessibility. Then, if the user still agrees to go ahead and clicks done, make sure that it takes precedence to accessibility and closes the inventory.
I'm still playing 1.13 because of this issue.
Edit: Spelling and grammar
First, I'd like to follow up on Fozi's suggestion. I don't even think it needs to be a menu option. Just add something like "TabAccessibility = True" to the options.txt but don't have it appear in any of the ingame menus. So players who want to disable the Tab accessibility functionality have to make the conscious decision to disable it. Thus it will be impossible to accidentally turn it off, making it pass the guidelines Maria mentioned in the moderator notice.
And the second thing, for those annoyed with this issue, it appears a beautiful someone has made a mod to fix it (for 1.14.X). Interestingly this mod was posted yesterday. As far as I can tell it works. Here is a link: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/tab-inventory
So I've combined Fozi's and Ian's idea into a mod that is able to run on the latest Snapshot version.
Since modifying files like options.txt is really hard for an average user, I decided to use Fozi's idea and created a warning screen that shows up as soon as the player to tries to bind tab.
So in a way you can see this as an possible proposal on how to resolve this issue.
https://github.com/0blu/TabInventory-Fabric
Just wanted to also say that you also cannot close the inventory with any of the mouse buttons, not even extra buttons (Button 4, Button 5, ect.) I don't know if this is its own issue or part of this one, but it kinda makes a no-keyboard run of Minecraft impossible haha.
@Nutty171 I think it would be wise to make a new ticket for this
Confirmed fixed in 20w27a