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HTML tabindexes

deanh77 by deanh77Founder · Sep 16, 2003 · 152 views · ·

Can you have negative tabindexes?

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18 Comments

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder ·

i don't know if they can be negative but i do know this: this forum will be used only by ian and dean. maybe ksmith if he comes on.

deanh77 deanh77Founder ·

YOU should spend more time in here you fake Comp Sci graduate.

iwz iwz ·

hahaha I know! come on!

deanh77 deanh77Founder ·

yeah, and matt's questions should be more along the lines of, "How would I do ______ ?" Instead of the more often heard, "Can you write me a program that does _____ ?"

iwz iwz ·

"Hey, I want to make website for my band. Tell me when it's done!"

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder ·

hahaha! you jerks! you're just mad because now that i'm done with school i have no use for this forum. so there.

ok4now ok4nowOG 2002 ·

hmm, selfish, aren't we

ok4now ok4nowOG 2002 ·

i'm insulted  

iwz iwz ·

you can hang out here too, it's ok

ok4now ok4nowOG 2002 ·

what's a tabindex?

deanh77 deanh77Founder ·

its a parameter of an HTML tag that denotes the order when tabbing through links, fields on an HTML page. Its why when you're entering your information on a credit card info page, you can enter your name, then press the tab button to get to the "address" field, then to the "city" field, because "address" has a tab index that is the next highest from the "name" field, and "city" the next highest from the "address" field.

iwz iwz ·

Haha, never thought about that.. but, I don't think so. Doesn't work in IE, it never tabs into those.

What would you use a negative tabindex for anyway?

deanh77 deanh77Founder ·

I'm inserting another page (actually using a tiles:insert tag) that has tabindexes starting from 1, and I'd like to have things, in the original page, before the insert tabbable.

So i guess I'm just gonna have to renumber the tabindexes on the page I'm inserting to allow for tabindexes before the elements in it.

iwz iwz ·

Well, the good news is that the tabindexes don't have to be exactly sequential. You can count by fives or whatever. They'll always be tabbed to in ascending order.

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002 stupid ·

yea just AIM each other. geez.

iwz iwz ·

stay out of our forum! HARRR

deanh77 deanh77Founder ·

I want people to learn from our daily AIM geek-fests.

deanh77 deanh77Founder ·

yeah, I know. I had the ones on the inserted page go from 100-130, and then before the insert they went from 1-5, and after from 200-220. gives room for change.

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