Tab Order of Elements on an APEX Page

To set the TAB order of your form, you simply need to add the attribute: TABINDEX="1" to the "HTML Form Element Attributes" of your items replacing the number with the desired sequence.



This is a great way of enhancing the usability of your forms.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Hi Duncan,

Nice tip.

There is more to say about this toppic as you can read as Flavio Casetta post: http://oraclequirks.blogspot.com/2007/06/accessibility-tabindex-accesskey-and.html

Greetings
21 April 2008 at 13:42
Anonymous said…
Sorry,

This is the complete link

http://oraclequirks.blogspot.com
/2007/06/
accessibility-tabindex-accesskey-and.html
21 April 2008 at 13:45
Anonymous said…
Related on giving tab index, i used that property with a javascript instruction.
example :

Property
"HTML Form Element Attributes"
Fill
onBlur=function_javascript();

How Can i combined tab index, instead i still need javascript function on that place...?

Greetings
23 April 2008 at 02:45
Duncan said…
Simply put the onblur javascript call directly after or before the TABINDEX cammand

i.e. TABINDEX="1" onblur="yourJS()"

Duncs
23 April 2008 at 08:48
Anonymous said…
Hi Duncan,

How's it going?! You back in the UK these days?

A blast from the past...Would you say that this is a way of using a parameter to a PLSQL procedure:

IF p_dd_id >= 10000
THEN
do something
ELSE
do something completely different
END IF;

No, me neither! ;-)

How's the car going btw?!

Pete (from Canon)
24 April 2008 at 15:06
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