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title: "How to: Enable Tab Characters in a TextBox Control"
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
helpviewer_keywords: 
  - "TextBox control [WPF], enabling tab characters"
  - "tab characters [WPF], enabling"
ms.assetid: 14b1b064-61f7-4958-be63-88d85b868d03
---
# How to: Enable Tab Characters in a TextBox Control
This example shows how to enable the acceptance of tab characters as normal input in a <xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBox> control.  
  
## Example  
 To enable the acceptance of tab characters as input in a <xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBox> control, set the <xref:System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.TextBoxBase.AcceptsTab%2A> attribute to **true**.  
  
 [!code-xaml[TextBox_EnablingTab#_AcceptsTab](~/samples/snippets/csharp/VS_Snippets_Wpf/TextBox_EnablingTab/CS/Window1.xaml#_acceptstab)]  
  
## See also

- [TextBox Overview](textbox-overview.md)
- [RichTextBox Overview](richtextbox-overview.md)