Tab Key Navigate from TextArea

I know I must be missing something obvious here but...
Hit the tab key in a TextField, and the focus passes to the next control. Hit the Tab key in a TextArea and it adds a tab (or four characters?) to the text.
How do I make it so hitting the Tab key in TextArea navigates to the next control?

Hi. You can do it like this:
final TextField tf2 = new TextField();
        TextArea ta = new TextArea();
        ta.addEventFilter(KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED, new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(KeyEvent t) {
                if (t.getCode() == KeyCode.TAB) {
                    tf2.requestFocus();
                    t.consume();
        });

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