Totally fair point, and one that Dennis's snippet doesn't fix entirely. I was fretting over http://jquery.cherryaustin.com, which has a nested div structure. The 'natural' tabs were all over the place - the divs are all javascript show/hide jobs, and various browsers set various tabs according to what they deemed visible (or so it seems, anyhow!). I started off manually setting tabs to fit in with the nested structure. Got fed up. Requested help.
This little code does exactly as it says in Firefox. IE7 seems to disregard it, setting its own tabs according to its own rules ... haven't tried it elsewhere. As my site is basically an off-the-cuff blog, I'm just happy to have my tabs set in *some* sort of logical order. But, if we're looking for lessons out of the exercise, I'd say: [1] Natural (browser) tabbing isn't reliable, if your page has a complex/mutable structure; [2] Auto- magic indexing isn't reliable either, but is better than an abandoned manual system! On Feb 16, 11:48 pm, "Karl Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious as to why this would need to be done. By "default" links > on a page have a tabindex based on their position in the HTML so > there's usually no need to set the tabindex. > > Interesting article on the > subject:http://www.webaim.org/techniques/keyboard/tabindex.php > > Karl Rudd > > On Feb 17, 2008 3:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > or does anyone know how to make one? Something that will incrementally > > number the tabindexes for all the hrefs on a page? It's a shot in the > > dark, but worth trying to save all that effort! > > Cherry :) > > >http://jquery.cherryaustin.com
