Thread:Extension talk:Header Tabs/Feature request: Allow to preselect a default tab/reply (2)

Because their are scenarios where this is just not possible,as in the case of the standard input text area (it has to come last due to the limitation of the template/form concept).

For example, forms that contain administrative information are filled and hold in templates (or other multiple templates) and those form parts responsible for those template input has to come before the textarea tab represented by. (and you want to keep it in the tab otherwise you could solve the display of information with collapsible tables or other CSS tricks)

From a user perspective, most of time users want to fill in text which is represented through a textarea (you can't use another area to handle standard text because does not create any conflicts with standard characters used in templates such & | etc. and you have text that you want to keep out of being stored in any template because their have no semantic relevancy).

This is way,  would come in handy because instead of going through the tabs before entering the textarea tab, the form can determine which tab to open by default and if necessary the user can decide whether he/she has to add administrative data on the other tabs (that are contained in the template).