This is not possible with conventional tab indices, since TinyMCE actually hides <textarea>
and creates an <iframe>
with an editor in it. You can do the work around by forcing you to focus on the editor in the blur event of the previous element in javascript, here is ajQuery compressed from my head:
$('#prev-input').blur(function(){ tinyMCE.get('textarea').focus(); });
Then, as soon as the user leaves the previous input focus, he goes to the TinyMCE editor, you can also add the blur () method to go to the next element.
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