[Resolved] HTML Tab order

[jlpierce]

Hello all,

I have created an HTML form and several of the fields do not get tabbed to properly. Is there a way to specify a tab order in HTML.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

John

[steved]

I think that <button>, <input>, <select> and <textarea> all have an attribute called tabindex that is used to set the order that items are tabbed through.

I've never used it, but I believe you can just say tabindex=5 on one form field and tabindex=6 on another and then they should tab in that order. Also not sure if it works on all browsers.

[alcapone]

yeah, i have never heard of it though. I know for sure it is tabindex in vb 6, but as it appeared to be there's such thing in html too. So I just went to the search eng and got first link. Seems aight:
http://www.idocs.com/tags/forms/_TEXTAREA_TABINDEX.html
cheers,
AlCapone

[jlpierce]

I went to the link and it looks good, it said that the normal tab order is the order in which fields appear in the form.

I have the form fields laid out from top to bottom and left to right, one portion works fine but another section almost identical just below it does not.

go figure.

John