diff --git a/src/EditorFactory.js b/src/EditorFactory.js
index 5518ac985dd..af57e08f736 100644
--- a/src/EditorFactory.js
+++ b/src/EditorFactory.js
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import { lowlight } from 'lowlight/lib/core.js'
 import hljs from 'highlight.js/lib/core'
 
 import { logger } from './helpers/logger.js'
-import { Mention, PlainText, RichText } from './extensions/index.js'
+import { FocusTrap, Mention, PlainText, RichText } from './extensions/index.js'
 // eslint-disable-next-line import/no-named-as-default
 import CodeBlockLowlight from '@tiptap/extension-code-block-lowlight'
 
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ const createEditor = ({ language, onCreate, onUpdate = () => {}, extensions, ena
 					}),
 				],
 			}),
+			FocusTrap,
 		]
 	} else {
 		defaultExtensions = [PlainText, CodeBlockLowlight.configure({ lowlight, defaultLanguage: language })]
diff --git a/src/components/Editor.vue b/src/components/Editor.vue
index 30e891fe873..66d565bf4a1 100644
--- a/src/components/Editor.vue
+++ b/src/components/Editor.vue
@@ -643,16 +643,10 @@ export default {
 
 		onFocus() {
 			this.emit('focus')
-
-			// Make sure that the focus trap doesn't catch tab keys while being in the contenteditable
-			window._nc_focus_trap?.[0]?.pause()
 		},
+
 		onBlur() {
 			this.emit('blur')
-
-			// Hand back focus to the previous trap
-			window._nc_focus_trap?.[0]?.unpause()
-			this.$el.focus()
 		},
 
 		onAddImageNode() {
@@ -750,6 +744,7 @@ export default {
 				this.$editor.commands.insertContent('\t')
 				this.$editor.commands.focus()
 				event.preventDefault()
+				event.stopPropagation()
 				return
 			}
 
diff --git a/src/components/Editor/ContentContainer.vue b/src/components/Editor/ContentContainer.vue
index 9daf5e587e5..7cd40891399 100644
--- a/src/components/Editor/ContentContainer.vue
+++ b/src/components/Editor/ContentContainer.vue
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
 			<EditorOutline />
 		</div>
 		<slot />
-		<EditorContent tabindex="0"
-			role="document"
+		<EditorContent role="document"
 			class="editor__content text-editor__content"
 			:editor="$editor" />
 		<div class="text-editor__content-wrapper__right" />
diff --git a/src/extensions/FocusTrap.js b/src/extensions/FocusTrap.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..66180244065
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/extensions/FocusTrap.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import { Extension } from '@tiptap/core'
+
+const toggleFocusTrap = ({ editor }) => {
+	const trapStack = window._nc_focus_trap ?? []
+	const activeTrap = trapStack[trapStack.length - 1]
+
+	const possibleEditorTabCommand = editor.can().sinkListItem('listItem')
+		|| editor.can().goToNextCell()
+		|| editor.can().goToPreviousCell()
+
+	if (possibleEditorTabCommand) {
+		activeTrap?.pause()
+	} else {
+		activeTrap?.unpause()
+	}
+}
+
+const unpauseFocusTrap = ({ editor }) => {
+	const trapStack = window._nc_focus_trap ?? []
+	const activeTrap = trapStack[trapStack.length - 1]
+
+	activeTrap?.unpause()
+}
+
+/**
+ * The viewer focus trap needs to be paused on the fly in order to properly handle tab commands in the editor,
+ * as we have no control over if a tab key event is reaching the editor otherwise. This is because the focus trap
+ * registeres a capture listener (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/addEventListener#capture), so whenever we reach a tab command in the editor the focus trap will already have captured the event.
+ *
+ * We also cannot work around this by pushing our own focus trap to the stack, as the focus trap package does not offer any reliable way to programmatically focus the next element of the parent trap if we allow tabbing out of the editor.
+ */
+const FocusTrap = Extension.create({
+	name: 'focustrap',
+	onFocus: toggleFocusTrap,
+	onBlur: unpauseFocusTrap,
+	onSelectionUpdate: toggleFocusTrap,
+	onTransaction: toggleFocusTrap,
+	onUpdate: toggleFocusTrap,
+})
+
+export default FocusTrap
diff --git a/src/extensions/index.js b/src/extensions/index.js
index c6929f7ed2c..0127386b12e 100644
--- a/src/extensions/index.js
+++ b/src/extensions/index.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 import CollaborationCursor from './CollaborationCursor.js'
 import Emoji from './Emoji.js'
+import FocusTrap from './FocusTrap.js'
 import Keymap from './Keymap.js'
 import UserColor from './UserColor.js'
 import Markdown from './Markdown.js'
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ import Mention from './Mention.js'
 export {
 	CollaborationCursor,
 	Emoji,
+	FocusTrap,
 	Keymap,
 	UserColor,
 	Markdown,
diff --git a/src/nodes/CodeBlockView.vue b/src/nodes/CodeBlockView.vue
index 28a225795fe..6780cf31aa2 100644
--- a/src/nodes/CodeBlockView.vue
+++ b/src/nodes/CodeBlockView.vue
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 			</div>
 		</div>
 		<div :class="{'split-view': showCode && showPreview }">
-			<pre v-show="showCode" class="split-view__code"><NodeViewContent as="code" :contenteditable="isEditable" /></pre>
+			<pre v-show="showCode" class="split-view__code"><NodeViewContent as="code" tabindex="-1" :contenteditable="isEditable" /></pre>
 			<div v-show="showPreview"
 				ref="preview"
 				class="split-view__preview"