diff --git a/mode/javascript.py b/mode/javascript.py
index 99d1087..58d4c28 100644
--- a/mode/javascript.py
+++ b/mode/javascript.py
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ class JavascriptGrammar(Grammar):
     ]
 
 class JavascriptTabber2(tab.StackTabber2):
+    fixed_indent       = True
     open_tokens        = {'delimiter': {'{': '}', '(': ')', '[': ']'}}
     close_tokens       = {'delimiter': {'}': '{', ')': '(', ']': '['}}
     control_tokens     = {'js.keyword': {'if': 1, 'else': 1, 'while': 1,
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ class JavascriptTagManager(TagManager):
 class Javascript(Fundamental):
     name        = 'Javascript'
     extensions  = ['.js', '.json']
+    tabwidth    = 2
     grammar     = JavascriptGrammar
     tabbercls   = JavascriptTabber2
     tagcls      = JavascriptTagManager
diff --git a/tab.py b/tab.py
index 5782950..0fc329e 100644
--- a/tab.py
+++ b/tab.py
@@ -384,8 +384,23 @@ class StackTabber2(Tabber):
                     raise Exception, msg % (t.string, y, s)
             else:
                 raise Exception, "what? %r (%r)" % (marker, t)
+
+        # if we start a line with a closing token (e.g. "}") we may want to
+        # shift the indentation left to "close" the indent. if we're using
+        # fixed indentation then we may want to do this shift multiple times
+        # (e.g. "})").
         if i == 0:
             self._save_curr_level()
+        elif self.fixed_indent:
+            all_closed = True
+            for j in xrange(0, i):
+                if self._is_ignored(tokens[j]) or self._is_close_token(tokens[j]):
+                    pass
+                else:
+                    all_closed = False
+                    break
+            if all_closed:
+                self._save_curr_level()
 
         # if we need to end at eof and we're at the EOF and we have a control
         # token, then we need to pop it.