tabindex jumps to menu ....

optical · Post by **optical** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:43 am

For some reason the tab index on my form jumps to the menu after option 10.

To see this in action go here:
http://www.aclaunchpad.com/education-test.htm
and then scroll to number 10 and select yes or no.

Now press tab (the first one works) and again and again, etc.

With each tab (using IE 6.0 and others maybe) one of the menu items (in order) becomes the target and then back to the next tab. my tab orders are set correct. I have triple checked them. I don't have tabs in the menu and it is in a seperate table that is not part of the form.

Any help would be appreciated. I scanned the forum and found a few similar questions but none of the answers applied.

Thanks in advance.

Post by **Ruth** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:57 am

Just for info, I tested your page in NN4, 6, 7, Opera 6, 7, Firebird .07 and IE 5.5 and the tab problem only occurs in IE. I'm not sure about macs since I don't have one. At least that narrows down the issue a bit.

Ruth

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:25 am

Safari is okay

maz

optical · Post by **optical** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:07 pm

innkeeper9 wrote:Just for info, I tested your page in NN4, 6, 7, Opera 6, 7, Firebird .07 and IE 5.5 and the tab problem only occurs in IE. I'm not sure about macs since I don't have one. At least that narrows down the issue a bit.

Ruth

Ruth,

Thank you for your help. Another IE issue .... grrrr.

Post by **Ruth** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:36 pm

I forgot to mention, and I don't know if this is involved in the same issue or not, but...on the questions that have yes no answers. In browsers other than IE the tab goes to yes, then to no then to the next question, but in IE it goes to yes, and then directly to the next question. Don't know if that behavior has something to do with it or not.

Ruth

optical · Post by **optical** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:39 pm

I have found that if I replace the menu with HTML links then I don't have a tab issue.

But, if I add the mmenudom.js file back to the page I have the issue.

While writing this post I checked the mmenudom.js file for tabindex ... yes it was there. I have now removed: tabindex="+_el+" from that file and I no longer have the tab issue.

I wonder if this should be labeled a bug?

Post by **John** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:35 pm

Keep in mind you are now running an unsupported copy of the menu. I'd replace that file with a fresh copy (5.07 is now out anyway), and post it as a bug for Andy to look at.

optical · Post by **optical** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:01 am

I'm not sure what you mean by unsupported, unless you mean that it was an older release. I have updated it and it is still happening. I'll post it as a bug.

Post by **Ruth** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:35 am

I think John means you've altered the actual menu coding.

Ruth

optical · Post by **optical** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:29 am

ahhhhh .... when i updated it to the latest one I didn't make the change so it should be as new (I also submitted it as a bug).

Post by **John** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:05 pm

optical wrote:ahhhhh .... when i updated it to the latest one I didn't make the change so it should be as new (I also submitted it as a bug).

Ruth is correct. When you modified the code it became unsupported. Also, any code that is down-level (e.g, you were running 5.06, I think, and 5.07 is current) is automatically "obsolete and no longer supported" as mentioned on http://milonic.com/menuvinfo.php.

We appreciate your going back to "our code", and also the bug post.