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Is there any way in HTML to tell the browser not to allow tab indexing on particular elements?
On my page though there is a sideshow which is rendered with jQuery, when you tab through that, you get a lot of tab presses before the tab control moves to the next visible link on the page as all the things being tabbed through are hidden to the user visually.
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To prevent tab indexing on specific elements, you can use tabindex="-1". If the value is negative, the user agent will set the tabindex focus flag of the element, but the element should not be reachable with sequential focus navigation. Note that this is an HTML5 feature and may not work with old browsers.
You can set the tabindex="-1" on this element so it's ignored in the tab order. 0 tells the browser to figure out the tab order on it's own, -1 tells the browser to ignore it. Show activity on this post.
removeAttribute('tabindex'); You can set tabindex by this. Show activity on this post. Use Jquery removeAttr to remove the attribute from any element.
In order to make an prevent an element from taking focus ("non-focusable"), you need to use Javascript to watch for the focus and prevent the default interaction. In order to prevent an element from being tabbed to, use tabindex=-1 attribute. Adding tabindex=-1 will make any element focusable, even div elements.
You can use tabindex="-1".
The W3C HTML5 specification supports negative tabindex values:
If the value is a negative integer
The user agent must set the element's tabindex focus flag, but should not allow the element to be reached using sequential focus navigation.
Watch out though that this is a HTML5 feature and might not work with old browsers.
To be W3C HTML 4.01 standard (from 1999) compliant, tabindex would need to be positive.
Sample usage below in pure HTML.
<input /> <input tabindex="-1" placeholder="NoTabIndex" /> <input />Don't forget that, even though tabindex is all lowercase in the specs and in the HTML, in Javascript/the DOM that property is called tabIndex.
Don't lose your mind trying to figure out why your programmatically altered tab indices calling element.tabindex = -1 isn't working. Use element.tabIndex = -1.
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