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Quintios

Quintios

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Mar 7, 2002
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I have a form with several text entry fields in it. I'd like the user to be able to tab from field to field in a certain order. How do I force that?

Thanks! Onwards,

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Not sure if you can, by default it goes from one field to the next... I have not failed; I have merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
 
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Use the "TabIndex" attribute:

<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;three&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;two&quot; tabindex=&quot;2&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;one&quot; tabindex=&quot;1&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;four&quot; tabindex=&quot;0&quot;>

The tab order above is one, two, three, four because the positive TabIndex values receive focus first.
TabIndex = 0 or no TabIndex are visited after the elements with a positive TabIndex and receive focus based on which appears first.
 
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Sweet!! I suppose I should have known that from my access experience. Who woulda thought they'd be similar like that. :)

Thank you! Onwards,

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Wow, guess I was wrong... I have not failed; I have merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
 
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xutopia, well good for you...you did a good thing, [smile] Forget the Nobel Peace prize, I just want to take over the world!! [hammer]
 
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GUJU don't take it the wrong way. You always help people out and teach a heck of a lot of stuff to other people (we share 4 forums in our threadminder). For once someone was capable of teaching you some stuff so that is why I thought it deserves a star. ;) Gary Haran
 
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xutopia. its ok...
Believe me, I did understand what you meant...sorry if you thought my post was too defensive...[smile] Forget the Nobel Peace prize, I just want to take over the world!! [hammer]
 
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maybe I just took it the wrong way! :) LOL All this typed text fails to express what we really mean sometimes! :)

Well I am off to bed! Ciao Gary Haran
 
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