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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Norman Peelman wrote:

> On 03/10/2012 01:40 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> If it is relevant, for some reason, that the markup in an HTML file
>> conforms to an HTML 4.01 DTD, then you can still set tabindex to a
>> negative value via JavaScript. Just note that in JavaScript, the
>> corresponding property is spelled tabIndex.
> 
>    As I indicated in another post. Somewhere...

There is no public standard to support that approach either, as detailed in 
my other answer.  Attribute properties, and DOM/AOM properties in general, 
have setters to prevent them from being assigned unsupported values.  Some 
DOM implementations like MSHTML (in IE) even throw exceptions in that case.


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