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Tabbing in ASP.NET form

Tom
A dumb question: Exactly how does tabbing work in an ASP.NET form in the
browser? Does it work the same was as a Windows Forms form does?

I have a rather complicated ASP form (that consists of HTML tables, ASP text
boxes, drop downs, data grids, etc)... and no matter how I set the TAB
indexes, it never seems to work the way I want it to - sometimes tabbing all
over the place!

What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any input...

Tom
Nov 19 '05 #1
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You set the tabindex property which gets rendered as a tabindex attribute of
the html element.

<asp:textbox tabindex=3 ...>
becomes
<input type="Textbox" tabindex=3 ... >

You probably already knew this, but there's nothing else really to know...

you might wanna check out:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/inte...#adef-tabindex

also keep in mind that other elements in the browser (like the brower
buttons themeselves) are going to participate in the tabbing experience
which is different that in winforms..

KArl

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A dumb question: Exactly how does tabbing work in an ASP.NET form in the
browser? Does it work the same was as a Windows Forms form does?

I have a rather complicated ASP form (that consists of HTML tables, ASP text boxes, drop downs, data grids, etc)... and no matter how I set the TAB
indexes, it never seems to work the way I want it to - sometimes tabbing all over the place!

What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any input...

Tom

Nov 19 '05 #2

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