tabbing and the object tag 1

[TheConeHead]

Is there a way to not have an object tag get selected when tabbing through? I am tabbing through the buttons on my page (see Section 508) and the tab is getting stuck on a flash .swf imported into the page via an object tag?

any ideas?

 

[onpnt]

have you set the tabindex? _________________________________________________________
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[TheConeHead]

I have not... I am not familiar with that... how does that work?

 

[onpnt]

quick example
<input type=&quot;button value=&quot;one&quot; tabindex=&quot;1&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button value=&quot;one&quot; tabindex=&quot;5&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button value=&quot;one&quot; tabindex=&quot;4&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button value=&quot;one&quot; tabindex=&quot;3&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button value=&quot;one&quot; tabindex=&quot;6&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button value=&quot;one&quot; tabindex=&quot;2&quot;> _________________________________________________________
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[TheConeHead]

but is there a way to disable something from being tabbed? it's not that I want it to be tabbed in a particular order- I do not want the object to be tabbed at all...

possible with tabindex?

 

[onpnt]

quick fix would be to place this in the tag you do not want focus
onfocus=&quot;document.formname.differentbox.focus()&quot;>

this will give the other object focus onFocus _________________________________________________________
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[onpnt]

I thought the -1 setting in tabindex would work also but wanted to double check my memory and after checking it does.
<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;one1&quot; tabindex=&quot;1&quot; onFocus=&quot;document.bgColor='green'&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;one2&quot; tabindex=&quot;5&quot; onFocus=&quot;document.bgColor='blue'&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;one3&quot; tabindex=&quot;-1&quot; onFocus=&quot;document.bgColor='red'&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;one4&quot; tabindex=&quot;3&quot; onFocus=&quot;document.bgColor='purple'&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;one5&quot; tabindex=&quot;6&quot; onFocus=&quot;document.bgColor='yellow'&quot;>
<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;one6&quot; tabindex=&quot;-1&quot; onFocus=&quot;document.bgColor='black'&quot;>

notice the screen does not change to the colors that have -1 as they never get focus _________________________________________________________
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[TheConeHead]

hmmmm ok I see what you are saying... I guess I just need to figure out how to syntactically put that together... the item I would want it to go to would not be in a form.... I guess I could put it in a form if need be... but I am not sure if an object tag can handle onfocus....

 

[TheConeHead]

beautiful!! I posted my last message before I saw your last... tabindex=-1 works!! thanks for the help!