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In an HTML form, each element must receive focus from the viewer to become active and perform its task. In
addition to clicking a specific form element, you can use either of these methods for navigating a form using the
keyboard:
Define a tabbing chain, and then type text or press Enter to trigger some form-specific action.
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Provide a platform-specific access key combination, and then type text or press Enter to trigger some form
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specific action.
Note: Not all browser versions support form navigation control keys.
Tabbing order
Navigation proceeds from the form element with the lowest tab index value to the form element with the highest.
Tab index values need not be contiguous or start at any particular value. If you assign the same tab index value to two
form elements, the order of those particular elements in the source code determines their tab order relative to one
another.
To assign a tabbing order to form elements
In the Layout Editor window, choose Special > Forms > Start Tabulator Indexing.
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Small yellow index boxes appear on top of or inside form elements that can be tabbed, and a pound sign appears next
to the index form element pointer
2
Click each element successively in the desired tabbing order. A tab index number appears in each index box and
in the Tab box of the Inspector.
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When you have specified the tabbing chain, choose Special > Forms > Stop Tabulator Indexing, or click the
Start/Stop Indexing button
Test the result in a web browser that supports tabbing navigation, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.
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B
Clicking to assign the tabbing order in a form
A. Text boxes in a form B. Yellow index boxes identify form elements that support tabbing. C. Click elements sequentially to set the tabbing
order.
Note: You can also assign the tabbing order by selecting each form element individually and entering a number in the
Tab box in each element's Inspector. Form elements that support tabbing have the Tab option in their Inspector.
To assign a keyboard shortcut to focus on a form element
You can define a unique access key for some types of form elements to enable viewers to focus on that element by
pressing a keyboard shortcut (Alt-S, for example, to activate the Submit button in a Microsoft Windows-based
browser).
when it's over such a form element.
in the Inspector.
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