On a web page, if there are input fields, pressing Tab key switches them, but in a particular order, is there a way to change this order and set it to some different order?
If this can be done in html, it is preferable, but if some other scripting language (javascript etc) can do it, it is also acceptable.
The attribute tabindex
takes care of that http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H4.html
to exclude a element completely from the tabindex give it a index of -1
the lowest safe index to start with is 1
.
0
is the default value so should be avoided when explicitly setting the tabindex
<input tabindex=1 type="text" name="my_input1">
<input tabindex=3 type="text" name="my_input2">
<input tabindex=2 type="text" name="my_input3">
The tab would go from the my_input1
to my_input3
to my_input2
field in this example
tabindex may be used on a
, area
, button
, input
, object
, select
and textarea