Re: Tabs + SELECTED

On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 12:33 PM, Andre Dubuc wrote:

Since these drop-down lists have " <OPTION SELECTED>In USA/Canada ", tabbing in the form jumps over these drop-downs [simply becuase they're filled]. I would like them to be included in the tabbing. Originally I used "tabindex" to control the flow over optional fields. I deleted the tabindex since the behavior of the form was erratic and non-logical in flow. Any ideas on how to circumvent the default behavior of <OPTION SELECTED>blah, blah , blah?

To the best of my knowledge, this action is out of your control, at least from the perspective of a PHP coder. It's the way the browser handles user input, and nothing your PHP script on the server can do will override this. In my browsers, Mozilla 0.9.9 Mac and IE5.1Mac, I don't get this behavior even when there is a SELECTED option. Although, I use the form <option selected="yes">blah blah</option>. Try your code using this style, which incidentally is XHTML compliant, and maybe your browser will respond differently. Or perhaps there is some JavaScript technique that can help you, if you decide to go this route then you will want to investigate the *focus-related attributes. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com